service unavailable

Cannot fulfill request

Service unavailable is an error message indicating that a server or system cannot fulfill a request, typically because it's overloaded, undergoing maintenance, or temporarily offline.

On the web, it appears as HTTP status code 503.

The site showed "service unavailable" during the traffic surge.

The message implies the problem is temporary rather than permanent.

Related

maintenance · technical difficulties · 404 · crash · overloaded · system overload · disconnect · buffering · loading · retry · unreachable · connection lost · busy · broken · glitch · website · downtime · spinning

Categories
Opposites
availability status

service unavailableavailable

Ready to be used

online · accessible · operational · live · up and running

system functionality

service unavailablefully functional

working · functioning · healthy · nominal · all systems go

permanence of outage

service unavailableshut down

Cease to operate

decommissioned · deprecated · end of life · discontinued · terminated

Family

service, serve, serves, served, serving, server, servers, serviced, services

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G