I’ve been having an issue with my Flask app on PythonAnywhere. A couple of times per day, the app just goes down for 10–15 minutes. During that time, when I open the URL (it’s an API endpoint), it doesn’t respond at all. Then, without me doing anything, it’s suddenly back up again.
The big problem: I use this API to handle customer purchases and write to my database. So when it’s down, I miss incoming data and have to handle things manually. It’s pretty painful.
Now here’s the weird part — I don’t see any errors in the access log, error log, or even the server log. The only thing that shows up is this:
2025-06-25 21:00:58 Wed Jun 25 21:00:58 2025 - SIGPIPE: writing to a closed pipe/socket/fd (probably the client disconnected) on request /pabbly/portal_session (ip 10.0.4.170) !!!
That line appears during the downtime window, but I don’t know if it’s related or just a side effect. Is this something that can be caused by how Flask is set up? Or is it possibly an uptime issue on PythonAnywhere’s side?
Appreciate any insights!
Best, Sven
