# The occasional capistrano 503

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-occasional-capistrano-503/110271>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-occasional-capistrano-503/110271 "2007-07-24T20:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-occasional-capistrano-503/110271/1 "2007-07-24T20:35:25Z")

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About one in ten deployments usually results in a 503. I run cap  
stop\_app/start\_app a few times and it seems to then ‘take’ and the site  
is  
up. I’m not really sure why this happens, which log files would you  
recommend looking in when this happens?

Thanks!