HTTP

503 Service Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to handle the request due to maintenance or overload. Should include a Retry-After header.

When You See This Code

During maintenance windows, server overload, or when the application pool is exhausted.

How to Fix

Wait and retry. Check the Retry-After header. Scale up servers if it's a capacity issue.

Specification

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