Error 503 Service Unavailable indicates an issue which arises when the server cannot handle a particular request, either because it is down for maintenance or due to an expected overload.

What is Error 503? To understand Error 503, let's take a look at how a website operates. On its own, a website is just a collection of codes and pages.

Social media giants and global news organisations have lost their websites this morning.

The home pages of these websites facing an outage showed an ‘Error 503’ message (Representative image: By asharkyu/Shutterstock) Several major websites were facing a global outage on June 8.

YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive were unresponsive for more than 45 minutes, affecting millions of people, and the two faults that were to blame were errors 500 and 503. What are erros 500 and 503?

Reddit seemed to suffer an outage on Wednesday afternoon following a slew of reports of an outage that morning as well.

UPDATE: It's back up. I guess YouTube couldn't handle the strain of Shane Dawson's penultimate Jake Paul video. It seems like YouTube is currently down for most users. The video hosting site is ...

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