phphttp-status-code-503pingdom

Pingdom Tools 503 server not available error. Can someone explain the error and possible resolutions to this?


I am getting below error descriptions when checking the site at pingdom tools. Can someone explain the possible cause behind this error and how to resolve it?

Response Headers 503
Server: Apache
Connection: Close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.45
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Retry-After: 86400
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Request Headers
Pragma: no-cache
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Host: www.dummyname.com
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: keep-alive

Solution

  • Every errors 5xx are server-side, that means there is nothing much you can do for fix it.

    If you take a look at the error codes messages you can check this:

    503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state.[63]

    pingdom is a big server, so surely it has several servers working on, the one your computer just used seems down, keep retrying may help

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes