Error 503 server unavilable due to capacity

[The PIT]

Title says it all are we busy today???

[Paul]

Bizarrely, the log shows the error, just the one of them showed to you as you logged in on Saturday. No idea why, seems error pages follow you about  

[Cheshire Freeze]

I was getting the 'checking browser' page the other day then a 503 gateway error. Wouldn't let me on the forum so gave up and went to bed lol.

[Paul]

That was on Friday night I think, there was an outage of the load balancers in the datacentre which caused everything to break for around an hour unfortunately. We switched on the ddos protection as a first port of call as it started to break as a precaution, which is what the checking browser message is. 

[alexisj9]

I got similar bu the message was 502. Also cloud kept taking me to an old page instead of the error. About a week old.

[Paul]

Yep, this was friday, was a 502 that day, and the browser checking page was the protection we'd switched on as a precaution