by JetBoy
Ugh. Basically, the giant farted and blew us out the window. A couple of days ago, we got a message from Dreamhost (the ones who blocked us a few weeks ago, forcing our latest move) letting us know that Juicy Secrets was to be shut down on November 21st.
Turns out we violated some mysterious policy that NOBODY will explain… or tell us how to fix. Multiple communications on our part to various Dreamhost staff drones only resulted in endless buck-passing, with one final message that basically consisted of: We have the right to terminate your site at any time, so we’re doing just that; this decision is final, fuck you very much. To add insult to injury, this decision came down mere days after I paid Dreamhost to re-up for another year. Intentional? I’m choosing to think so.
Sad tidings indeed. However, your Boy Pornographer (me), site Maintenance Mistress (Amanda Lynn), and our resident Mr. Fixit (who I have nicknamed Erototech) are determined to keep the dream alive… for us, and for you good people. So we’re rolling those dice again and moving Juicy Secrets to what is, by my count, will be its FIFTH home. Maybe this time we’ll prevail.
Our goal is to have the new JS up before this one shuts down, so keep checking this space. You can sign up for our mailing list, but it turns out that Gmail limits us to 500 emails a day, and we’re already at 435 subscribers, so we may not be able to mail everyone if a lot of you sign up.
Okay, them’s the basic facts for now, friends. Fingers crossed, incense lit, prayer wheels spun. Your good thoughts and kind regards are much appreciated in this time of tribulation. Hopefully, we’ll soon be returning with good news.
Yrs, JetBoy
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Very best of luck Jetboy.
Looking forward to hearing of your success in finding a new home.
Good Luck in all you do, guys!
hope all goes well with your seachfor a new home hope to be hearing you people
Well your tenacity and collective energy to keep going is what keeps us returning and offering our hopes…keep up the good fight!
I second what Rabby has said
Fingers crossed!
I think im on the email list but im not sure
I was afraid you were gone for good, thank goodness that is not the case.Hopefully you have me on your list to receive the updates.
Thanks for all your efforts
Good Luck Jetboy. I hope it all works out real soon. Maybe this will be the last tims JS will have to move for a very long time.
I hope you are getting a partial refund on that subscription. If they don’t reimburse you for the time you don’t have the service anymore that sounds questionable if not illegal. I’m not a lawyer maybe it will just be a dick move on their part and not illegal. Either way I hope you all recover and bounce back better then ever, good luck.
Where is the mailing list?
Bottom right of the home page.
Thank you. I was in despair at the recent disappearance, but a tech-savvy friend found the new site.
Yes fingers crossed. You are wonderful doing what you do for us. Even id we don’t get the invite on the first, second, etc., list … we hope to get it at some point. We love this site!
So so so sad to see this happening again. Sounds like some Comstocker got to the people who run Dreamhost. Why can’t this people just leave us lovely law-abiding citizens who enjoy this beauitful form of erotica alone and let us enjoy ourselves.
Sadly I fear as this world is being turned on it’s proverbial head by the current crop of maniacal world leaders, this is going to keep happening.
Good luck Jetboy, Amanda & Erototech in your search. Hopefully you find a place that is much more open minded and the Comstockers won’t be able to influence.
Hoping for success; good luck.
Sending you the best of luck to help you guys to move forward. Hopefully you will get the new host to post this amazing website. Waiting anxiously to hear the good news!
Holy shit, dude, you guys just can’t catch a break. And I might know a thing or two about getting canned basically just because. Always makes me think of this little clip, which sums it up pretty well.
https://youtu.be/2EwGHjogRz0?t=2760
Waiting for news, guys, be careful
Where can I contact you, in case?
Thanks for letting everyone know, at least we have some advance warning this time. Good luck people!
Universe is really out to get y’all, huh? It’s unfortunate but hopefully it’ll be okay in the end, best of luck with everything that’s going on. In the meantime I’ll be archiving more of my favorites, just in case 🙂
Hi! How does one get on the email list?
Bottom right of the home page.
Sorry to hear about this I hope you work this out.
From Sunny Coast QLD.OZ. I do hope you all do well in this time of dilemma. I have read a lot of your stories of late, the humour and light drama/ romance is an interest I get enjoyment from as well as the main topic of sex and where the authors take their characters and stories. Best of luck or dealings with keeping this site up for every one involved, staff authors and readers. Thankyou so much: GNB.
You might want to contact nifty.org because there sight has been running since the early it’s with no problem.
JS was already on the same host as Nifty, and yet here we are…
If that is the case why is Nifty’s URL nifty.org/nifty. Was JS on this “.org” host.
If it being the case where JS and Nifty were on the same host, very sadly it seems like someone has a vendetta against JS.
Is a host really needed? I guess that it would be too expensive, and very much more work to run their own servers and host themselves. Just a thought.
Well that sucks, and doing it after you just paid them is a really low move. We appreciate all your efforts though, keep fighting, and resurrecting the site and we’ll keep contributing and supporting.
If I may add my penny’s worth for the new site…don’t have any photos at all. Keep it 100% literature. We’re here for the stories anyway.
See you on the other side…
Joe
I’ll look for you in the virtual world as you serve a purpose in my head!
Thank you for all the effort spent keeping the site online. I was wondering if you and the authors might consider backing up the library on archiveofourown. The site is down right now, but it would be nice to know that the stories here won’t be lost forever if the worst happens.
All authors are free to publish their stories on AO3 as well. I do with mine. JetBoy can’t just upload other people’s work without permission, though.
What is A03 or AO3? Never heard of it. Could we have the URL link to check it out. Thanks.
https://www.ao3app.com/
Well, that’s for the mobile app.
The real story site is at http://archiveofourown.org but they’ve been down for maintenance. Some security issue. I guess everyone’s having problems lately. They’re supposed to be back up within a week or two, last I heard.
It’s mainly a fanfic site, but original stories are also allowed. It’s for all kinds of stories and themes, though, not only erotica. You’ll have to dig to find stuff similar to JS fare, but they have decent search capabilities.
Yikes, so soon after we just got back! They better refund y’all after wasting your time like this. Here’s hoping you’re back soon!