media encoder not rendering after effects file

[lilypomegranate]

i've been trying to render my aep for the last two days and it either gets stuck connecting to the dynamic link server, or stops encoding half way through. its a very simple video as well and only 10 seconds long.

[belronika]

same here. Since 2 days it works intermittently, I even downgraded both AE and AME and it still doesn't render. What's going on Adobe?