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Cannot access blog 503 error

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:40 am
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    I get a 503 error and have done for several hours

    Can see other WordPress blogs, but not my own

    adamsmith.wordpress.com

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:43 am
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    Sorry, the problem is I cannot access the blog, but can access dashboard and write etc

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:44 am
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    http://adamsmith.wordpress.com

    Always add the first part to make it clickable. We need to look at it.

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:44 am
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    Goshdarnit!

    Something has gone wrong with our servers. It’s probably Matt’s fault.

    We’ve just been notified of the problem.

    Hopefully this should be fixed ASAP, so kindly reload in a minute and things should be back to normal.

    The above is the message i get all the time

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:45 am
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    Your blog opens fine for me. What happens when you are on the Dashboard and you hit View Site?

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 6:45 am
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    Define “all the time.” If you’ve gotten it five times in the last hour, that’s one thing. If you see it once a day, that’s quite another. It should very seldom pop up.

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 7:13 am
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    When I hit View Site, I get the error message

    I can make a post, I can preview a post, I can carry out dashboard activities, but I cannot see the blog whilst I am looged in to WordPress.

    This has been ongoing for several hours

    I had initially thought there was a system problem and as I had some other things to do had not worried, but issue is still continuing

    I can post, but cannot see the posts on the blog

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 7:17 am
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    Then you need to contact staff via your Dashboard Support button and give them all details including a link to this thread.

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 7:19 am
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    Now seems to be working OK all of a sudden

    Thanks for the help

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 10:14 am
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    This error is now recurring agaim after about 2 hours of no problem

    it seems to affect only

    http://adamsmith.wordpress.com

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34 am
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    Then report it to staff as I suggested above.

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    mark · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 10:59 am
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    Looking, fixing.

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    mark · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 11:03 am
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    Saw, fixed :)

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 11:04 am
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    Same problem again

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    adamsmith1922 · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 11:05 am
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    am going to shutdown amd reboot some 12 hous from now and see if issues persist

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    raincoaster · Member · Nov 24, 2008 at 11:26 am
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    Re-report if it is recurring.

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