Form congested server (522), now broke WP site

Hi there,

Context: I created 4 forms from within the Hubspot environment, and pushed each of them live (WordPress site) at some point. I was testing out which forms works best, publishing and unpublishing them multiple times (as I didn’t see an option to test it on staging, I tested it on the live site). Testing was smooth, the site was fast, even with 2 forms etc.

My issue: After testing, I unpublished the 3 forms I didn’t need, and kept the 1 form I did need. That’s when I got a 522 error, described as a congested server. The site was slow to load.

Then I unpublished the form, to see if it helps, and the site was just véry slow to load. Now, a bit later, I get a ‘Not found’ (basically our server says the site doesn’t exist).
I realize it might be a server-side thing (we use TransIP), but it’s clearly triggered by Hubspot.
Has anyone encountered this before? Any solutions?
Thanks,
Julie

Hi @JdelaKethulle. I haven’t personally seen that error, but it does seem to be a server-side error code. I found this resource with detailed information on the error and a potential fix.

With that said, I can feel that frustration of the only thing that changed is the HubSpot form. For the page where the error is happening, is it the live form that appears? Or is it possible that an old HubSpot form is somehow there?

I’m curious also - using HubSpot myself, I don’t know of a way to unpublish a form, only remove it from a page. HubSpot forms don’t have draft and published functionality. They either exist on a page or they don’t, but they always “work.” If you make a change to a form you have to update and re-publish, but the previous version would still be live.

If it were me, I’d start with ensuring the page with the error is free of all HubSpot code except the live form. Then I’d check with the server side of the situation and see if they have a solution.

yes I meant draft indeed. Thx for your reply and the resource!

522 is definitely a server side issue. I would contact your host about this. The most common occurance of this has to do specifically with Cloudflare. They are unable to reach your host and the server returns that error. If you experience this a lot you may need to consider alternate hosting if the host is unable to resolve.

Hi @JdelaKethulle

Is there any particular reason why you think this is down to HubSpot, other than the forms?

If your site is hosted somewhere else, that’s where I would start investigating a server error, as it relates to the server that hosts the website.

I found this 522 error troubleshooting video online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axYMNCuL_hE

I’m not familiar with TransIP, but maybe the publishing, unpublishing, re-publishing hit some sort of limit of your hosting contract with them? But that’s just a wild guess from me.

I hope that helps.

Frank