Title: 503 errors
Last modified: December 6, 2018

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# 503 errors

 *  Resolved [hypnocox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hypnocox/)
 * (@hypnocox)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-errors-3/)
 * Over the last couple of days I’ve had some notifications my website has gone 
   offline via Jetpack. However, they’ve stopped and am now finding that trying 
   to crawl my website is throwing up 503 errors. Even using google webmaster and
   using the fetch comes back as temporarily unavailable. Submitting a sitemap also
   won’t work.
 * I deactivated Wordfence and managed to get a positive result for crawling the
   website so I’m trying to understand why wordfence appears to be preventing these
   actions. I’m not technically savvy so be kind. Since reactivating wordfence the
   problem comes back.
    I’m on WordPress 4.9.8 and wordfence 7.1.18
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2F503-errors-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-errors-3/#post-10956162)
 * Hi [@hypnocox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hypnocox/),
 * Can I have you check Wordfence -> Tools -> Live Traffic for anything suspicious?
 * From there, you should be able to see if any requests were erroneously blocked
   by Wordfence. Can you let me know if you see anything there?
 * Dave
 *  Thread Starter [hypnocox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hypnocox/)
 * (@hypnocox)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-errors-3/#post-10962110)
 * Thanks, I ended up deactivating and also resetting all the settings on wordfence.
   Appears ok now having re-installed the plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [hypnocox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hypnocox/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/503-errors-3/#post-10962110)
 * Status: resolved