# 429 too many requests

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [September 12, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/429-too-many-requests/128350 "2019-09-12T01:08:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/429-too-many-requests/128350/3 "2019-09-12T15:12:14Z")

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No, I don’t believe so (and the logs capture IP addresses normally) but it does sit behind an ELB. It definitely did correlate with a significant increase in traffic (looks kind of like a DDOS attack or something)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/b/9b21e01ddda081cbaa1276783f104cd13cc5569d.png)

But if my understanding of rate limiting is correct, that shouldn’t have affected every user— Only the user trying to visit a million times, right?

I’ll verify re: the network architecture. Thanks!

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