404 Error even when the page exists

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve seen similar errors from Google bot. It logs 404 errors in Search Console even though the pages exist. I’m not sure but I think it’s a shared hosting issue with certain hosts. Maybe the servers randomly get overloaded and fail to respond properly. They should not return a 404 status when that happens but a 503 or something. Either the server is misreporting status or the error is misrepresented in Search Console. Since it does not seem to affect normal users and so far the Search Console URLs listed as 404 are not important for my SEO I’ve not investigated further.

    In any case I’m pretty sure it’s a hosting issue and not a WP issue.

    Thread Starter antonm1

    (@antonm1)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I don’t believe that is a hosting issue because this is a dedicated server with several VPS (80 CPU / 256GB RAM) and I didn’t notice any overload the server is almost idle.

    Best regards,

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