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Error code: 504-loadbalance

Please, due to "Error code: 504-loadbalancer" my apps at https://ejmvsys.pythonanywhere.com/ become unusable because of a failure: every time I prepare a pdf from python, The app stales, for maybe 10 minutes, and return the PYTHONANYWHERE error page: Something went wrong :-(

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Error code: 504-loadbalancer

deleted-user-267385 | 2 posts | Sept. 7, 2018, 10:42 p.m. | permalink

The 504 error is a symptom, not the cause -- it means that your website took more than a few minutes to return a response to the incoming request, so the system timed out.

What code are you using to create the PDF? Does it take a long time if you try to run the same code from a console?

Staff giles | 12074 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Sept. 8, 2018, 5:32 p.m. | permalink