server error

System malfunction message

A server error is a failure on the part of a website or application's backend system to fulfill a request.

The user's device sent a valid request, but something went wrong on the server's end—a crashed process, database failure, or misconfigured code.

Server errors typically display as 500-series HTTP status codes: We kept getting a 500 server error when trying to check out.

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