# Troubleshooting a 429 (rate limit)

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-a-429-rate-limit/81060 "2018-02-20T18:20:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubleshooting-a-429-rate-limit/81060/13 "2018-10-09T22:03:23Z")

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> [@AstonJ](#):
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> Any idea what’s going on?

Yeah very likely NGINX thinks everyone has the same IP, so your rate limiting is kind of nonsense, to quickly mitigate I would recommend removing the rate limiting template and rebuilding. But longer term you are going to need to learn a bit of NGINX and figure out how to teach NGINX that everyone has different IPs using the set real ip extension

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