503 error with Cloudflare in html response body

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I am encountering 503 errors on my Cloudflare protected site.

The error names Cloudflare in the html and all the tips I can find suggest contacting them via support ticket to fix, but this is for one of my free account clients so I can’t.

Any ideas on how to fix?

I ran a trace (another forum suggestion) with these results:

Tracing route to [my url] [172.67.174.63]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 62 ms 62 ms 61 ms 10.28.18.1
2 62 ms 62 ms 62 ms 154.6.151.1
3 62 ms 63 ms 64 ms 100.64.130.129
4 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms superloop156970.me1.as9280 .net .au [202.60.93.57]
5 74 ms 74 ms 75 ms bundle-ether32.bdr02-ipt-530colli-mel.au.superloop .net .co [103.200.13.142]
6 75 ms 74 ms 75 ms bundle-ether34-106.bdr02-ipt-47bourke-syd.au.superloop .net .co [103.200.13.112]
7 75 ms 75 ms 75 ms bundle-ether32.bdr02-ipt-639garde-syd.au.superloop .net .co [103.200.13.70]
8 75 ms 80 ms 75 ms 27.122.122.15
9 75 ms 75 ms 75 ms 172.68.208.3
10 75 ms 74 ms 74 ms 172.67.174.63

Trace complete.

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Added info:
I ran a status check on httpstatus.io/ and the url earthsports.club showed too many redirects. It is hosted on elementor and then redirects through Cloudflare. Nothing else, it’s a very early site.

3

Same error happening across couple of our free sites. (intermittent)
Hosted at different locations 1 in North America and 1 in Europe.

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable 
cloudflare

Started around yesterday.

Any help or ideas?

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Comforting that it’s not just me. I notice that on Elementor that same site is frequently timing out during updates and throwing the error warning:

10.12.2022_02.24.34_REC

5

i have this error again too.
its the same like me and others had in april.
this is my post of april:

6

same here, all our 4 sites on APO are getting 503 errors the entire day today…

7

We don’t have issues with redirects or website itself, the websites otherwise loads correctly, the 503 error is annoying sometimes.

I think for your case, you need to take closer look at your setup maybe even try disabling orange cloud and see if that works,etc.

8

Having the same problem right now.

Wondering if it’s due to an update we pushed out earlier today, or a Cloudflare issue going on right now.

9

For those experiencing issues, can you share any more information about your location (hit example.com/cdn-cgi/trace replacing example.com with your domain)? Are you all using APO?

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Started getting this today too not long ago on my free plan for the first time. Webserver has almost no load at all, and the 503 page is tagged with Cloudflare. Happening a lot now. Here’s partial output from /cdn-cgi/trace.

fl=83f82
ts=1670614316.913
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=OSL
sliver=none
http=http/2
loc=NO
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
kex=X25519

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This appears to be widespread. I’ve escalated the issue now and hopefully someone will address it ASAP.

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12

Same here, no load, no anomaly that i see on any of the servers.

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fl=78f75
h=
ip=2a02:1811:e50b:800:ccc5:8988:ef51:402f
ts=1670614943.073
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=BRU
sliver=none
http=http/3
loc=BE
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
kex=X25519

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Having the same issue right now, seems to be on desktop pc only.

fl=20f420
h=
ip=95.96.191.37
ts=1670616225.515
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=AMS
sliver=none
http=http/3
loc=NL
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
kex=X25519

Switching to development mode does not help either so it’s not caching.

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Sorry for the issues, the team is aware and investigating. cloudflarestatus.com is being updated and will reflect progress as the team addresses the issue.

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Public incident has been declared and posted.

Updates will most likely come quicker over there.

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17

Status of the incident seems to be solved per the status page, please check if you see issues.

Will mark this as solved.

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Thank you all for kind response and quick solution.

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Seems to have fixed overnight whilst I slept (Aus) so I believe it was the same error.

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The problem still hasn’t been solved, but 503 still occurs intermittently