Error 503

[Benjy]

Hi,I can,t upload photo, ERROR 503 Unavailable,any Ideas concerning this issue

[shreds]

503 is service unavailable.

If you are utilising O2 in any way, shape or form, then this does not surprise me.

The service has been down all day but they are unable to explain why or who is affected. In one of the most supposedly technologically advanced countries in the world in the 21st Century this is dreadful.

[Benjy]

Ian,it is trying to upload in C in C that I have problem with trying to upload from computer.....

[shreds]

Oh!

[Lancer]

Ask moderator for help.

[tao2]

503's usually just temporary - either a busy period or a minor glitch, or maintenance. If it happens tae you regularly, try switching of the PC then the router and switch back on, router then PC. It's most likely tae be the site though and as advised above contact a mod(if one hasn't seen this thread already).

[Benjy]

Boab,cheers for reply....

[Kris V]

Sometimes it helps to click the "Go Advanced" button.
May give it a try.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Benjy,

Not sure I can help ....

I'd agree the problem may well fix itself, sometime in the next minutes, hours or days (your guess is as good as mine) - ah, I just saw when you posted this

Is it working now?

However, it would have helped me try to replicate the issue if I knew:
Which method of photo upload is failing?

TinyPic
CiC Post Attachment
CiC Album
Direct link from another website

Which browser you are using?

It also would have helped if I had spotted this several days ago - sorry

By all means send me a PM if it hasn't started working by the following day.

[Dave Humphries]

In a PM:

Hi Dave,thanks for your reply re error 503, tried again today still the same, error 503..service unavailable....using Tinypics ....go advanced....Internet Explorer, I had no problem in the past just the last couple of days this has occurred, Regards Bernard

Test upload by Dave to TinyPic using Go Advanced on Internet Explorer 11



Hurricane in Windsor (1,306px × 1,000px - best seen in LyteBox)

Only a jpg snap with a 12 MP Canon S100 and then I cropped over half away in PP

... but I liked the late afternoon sunlight on the underside of the wings, showing the panelling and rivets.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Bernard,

Can I suggest you try another browser, or another method of uploading a picture?

As you can see, I had no problem.

Very odd - how you can post in threads and PMs, but not pictures.

[Benjy]

Dave,been trying to upload pictures and it seems I can upload pictures taken in the past and not ones taken recently,the only thing different is I bought a new Sony 70 -300 G lens and it is pictures taken with it that seems to be the problem though saying that I uploaded a couple last week with out any problem

[Dave Humphries]

Dave,been trying to upload pictures and it seems I can upload pictures taken in the past and not ones taken recently,the only thing different is I bought a new Sony 70 -300 G lens and it is pictures taken with it that seems to be the problem though saying that I uploaded a couple last week with out any problem

This gets stranger and stranger