Title: 503 error while updating
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 503 error while updating

 *  [Buckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chantal-c/)
 * (@chantal-c)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-while-updating/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been trying to update the core to 3.0.1, some plugins and the twentyten 
   theme, but every time I get following error:
 * > Error 503 Service Unavailable
   > Service Unavailable
   >  Guru Meditation:
   > XID: 918968556
   >  Varnish cache server
 * I’ve searched google a lot, but can’t find any answers.
    Can anyone help me?
 * Thanks.
    Regards,
 * Chantal

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-while-updating/#post-1628401)
 * Try contacting your hosts. It may be a server configuration issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Buckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chantal-c/)
 * (@chantal-c)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-error-while-updating/#post-1628405)
 * Thanks, I will contact them.

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