# 503 Service Unavailable error

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/503-service-unavailable-error/25181>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 12, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/503-service-unavailable-error/25181 "2015-02-12T23:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![AprilW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@AprilW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AprilW)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/503-service-unavailable-error/25181/1 "2015-02-12T23:06:31Z")

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Hello,

Seems to be experiencing issues with a 503 Service Unavailable - “No server is available to handle this request”, throughout the day. Any words on what is up?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/503-service-unavailable-error/25181/2 "2015-02-12T23:13:56Z")

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Sorry about that – we’re struggling with a new memory leak in our postgres database driver (the `pg` gem) and we’re downgrading to a previous version.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/503-service-unavailable-error/25181/3 "2015-02-12T23:14:13Z")

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