# npm: Slew of 503s on npmjs.com

> npm status incident “Slew of 503s on npmjs.com” on 2016-07-20: impact none (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd
Last updated: 2016-07-20T18:10:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2016-07-20 18:10 UTC · Resolved: 2016-07-20 18:10 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd](https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd)
- [Company: npm](https://rewindex.com/company/npm.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2016-07-20 18:10 UTC: The npmjs.com website was down for up to 15 minutes today, between 10:30 AM PT and 10:45 AM PT. This was due to a web spider, which slammed the website with a 500% spike in requests in the span of that time. We have identified the bot and banned its user agent.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by npm, started 2016-07-20 18:10 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd
- Citation: npm, “Slew of 503s on npmjs.com” (2016-07-20 18:10 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[npm: Slew of 503s on npmjs.com (2016-07-20)](https://rewindex.com/company/npm/incidents/cblzh1fs08sd)`


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