# Setting up Discourse with SSL on Docker with AWS ELB breaks and returns 503 Service Unavailable (Back-end server is at capacity)

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [May 21, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-with-ssl-on-docker-with-aws-elb-breaks-and-returns-503-service-unavailable-back-end-server-is-at-capacity/29098 "2015-05-21T23:52:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![hughevans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hughevans/32/116088_2.png) [@hughevans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hughevans)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-with-ssl-on-docker-with-aws-elb-breaks-and-returns-503-service-unavailable-back-end-server-is-at-capacity/29098/7 "2015-05-22T10:57:41Z")

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I like to have the whole domain fronted by a CDN such a CloudFront or CloudFlare and then you can use that to redirect HTTP \> HTTPS.

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