# Error 503?

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 4, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687 "2021-04-04T15:52:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![umhi](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/umhi/32/570_2.png) [@umhi](https://discuss.write.as/u/umhi)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/1 "2021-04-04T15:52:13Z")

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Hello! Over the past couple of days, I haven’t been able to create new posts and am receiving a 503 error. Any idea why this might be?

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**Author:** ![acererak](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/acererak/32/676_2.png) [@acererak](https://discuss.write.as/u/acererak)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/2 "2021-04-05T17:53:11Z")

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same, im getting this when publishing to anonymous

response headers:

```auto
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:50:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1520
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "6065fdec-5f0"

```

response body:

```auto
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
	<head>

		<title>A Troubling Question &mdash; by Write.as</title>
		<style text="text/css">
body {
	font-family: Lora, serif;
	color: #111;
	padding: 0 1em;
}
.heading {
	margin-top: 4em;
	margin-bottom: 3em;
}
		</style>
		
	</head>
	<body id="promo">
		
		<div id="official-writing" style="text-align: center">
		
			<div class="heading">
				<h1>write.as</h1>
			</div>
			
			<div style="text-align: left; max-width: 500px; margin: 0 auto;line-height: 1.4;">
				<p style="font-size: 1.25em;">She waited for an answer to her question. "Well?"</p>
				<p>No response.</p>
				<p>This wasn't like him. He was usually full of stories and deep insights into the human mind&mdash;not this <em>empty page</em>.</p>
				<p>Something had stolen his thoughts, but she knew he had to get better soon. <em>Surely</em> he'd be better soon.</p>
				<p>She waited.</p>
				<p style="text-align: center;margin: 4em 0;">&#x2756; &#x2756; &#x2756;</p>
				<p style="text-align: center;font-size:0.86em;">(There's a temporary problem with the Write.as servers.)</p>
			</div>

		</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  WebFontConfig = {
    custom: { families: ['Lora:400,700:latin'], urls: ['/css/fonts.4ce1882.css'] }
  };
  (function() {
    var wf = document.createElement('script');
    wf.src = '/js/webfont.js';
    wf.type = 'text/javascript';
    wf.async = 'true';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    s.parentNode.insertBefore(wf, s);
  })();
</script>
	</body>
</html>

```

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/3 "2021-04-05T19:18:14Z")

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Thanks for letting us know! It looks like this is caused by a brief period of high traffic on the site, causing the site to be unavailable momentarily. We’ll monitor this a little more closely, but for now, it should work fine if you try again after a short period of time. Does that work for now?

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**Author:** ![acererak](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/acererak/32/676_2.png) [@acererak](https://discuss.write.as/u/acererak)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/4 "2021-04-05T22:14:43Z")

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Still seeing the issue, i logged out and then back in.

```auto
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 22:13:42 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1520
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "6065fdec-5f0"

```

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**Author:** ![umhi](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/umhi/32/570_2.png) [@umhi](https://discuss.write.as/u/umhi)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/5 "2021-04-05T22:33:07Z")

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I’m still receiving that error as well… :^\

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**Author:** ![acererak](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/acererak/32/676_2.png) [@acererak](https://discuss.write.as/u/acererak)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/6 "2021-04-06T14:44:21Z")

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tried again this morning, logged out and back in, tried posting to both anonymous and my main blog.

```auto
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:43:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1520
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "6065fdec-5f0"

```

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/8 "2021-04-06T14:55:14Z")

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Thanks, we’ll take a closer and let you all know what we find!

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/9 "2021-04-07T12:02:19Z")

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Okay, it looks like this wasn’t actually related to availability, but rather us being a little too restrictive on our publishing endpoints in the API. We’ve relaxed those a bit, so you shouldn’t have any issues now.

Please give it a shot again and let me know if you still run into problems!

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**Author:** ![acererak](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/acererak/32/676_2.png) [@acererak](https://discuss.write.as/u/acererak)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/10 "2021-04-07T15:39:47Z")

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Confirmed, was able to post today. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![umhi](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/umhi/32/570_2.png) [@umhi](https://discuss.write.as/u/umhi)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/11 "2021-04-07T16:45:48Z")

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Success on my end too! Thanks @matt!

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/error-503/2687/12 "2021-04-07T16:46:37Z")

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Excellent! No problem – thanks for your patience with this.