# Woke up to "too many requests error"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5월 17, 2018, 6:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710 "2018-05-17T06:57:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [5월 17, 2018, 6:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/1 "2018-05-17T06:57:11Z")
“Due to extreme load, this is temporarily being shown to everyone as a logged out user would see it.”
Whats the fix for this? Im using digital ocean on a 4gb memory, 80gb disk plan.
I refreshed page once and got the warning that the page was being viewed as a logged out user would see. I refreshed the page again and it went away. I dont want issues with it later if its something I can fix now.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 17, 2018, 7:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/2 "2018-05-17T07:24:04Z")
This means that page (usually a topic) was getting clobbered by a lot of users, so it switched into high performance anonymous mode for a bit to reduce load.
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### Author:  [@Garrick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Garrick)
#### Post date: [5월 17, 2018, 7:58오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/3 "2018-05-17T07:58:05Z")
Thanks. Was worried something more serious was happening,
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [3월 8, 2019, 9:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/4 "2019-03-08T09:27:51Z")
I’ve been experiencing this recently as well. Our forum is private (you have to be logged in to see any of it) so that “getting clobbered by a lot of users” is not a plausible scenario. We only have a few hundred users in total, and only a fraction of that would visit the site on a daily basis. How else can I troubleshoot this?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2019, 12:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/5 "2019-03-12T00:54:02Z")
This means your server is probably getting overloaded, maybe give it a bit more resources?
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [3월 12, 2019, 1:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/6 "2019-03-12T13:40:14Z")
Thanks, Sam. It looks like there were two recent spikes of activity:
Not sure why they happened, but I don’t think it’s worth moving to a DO droplet with more resources.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [3월 15, 2019, 3:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/7 "2019-03-15T15:33:35Z")
Those spikes are likely backups. You have at least 1gb of ram and installed with discourse-setup so you have swap?
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [6월 20, 2019, 7:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/8 "2019-06-20T07:57:21Z")
Good thinking! We do have 1 GB of ram. I installed this forum in 2016, using whatever was the recommended method and settings at the time. How can I check if there’s swap?
Edit: I just checked with `free` and it looks like I have a 2 GB swap file. I thought this was something Discourse-specific, which why asked how to check for it.
Is it worth enlarging the swap file?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [6월 20, 2019, 8:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/9 "2019-06-20T08:08:22Z")
If it’s digital ocean, you likely have a 1gb $10/month droplet. You can resize to a 2gb droplet for the same price. That’s what to do first.
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [6월 20, 2019, 8:27오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/10 "2019-06-20T08:27:34Z")
I’m on DO and have a $5 1GB droplet. Resizing to a 2 GB droplet is $10. I’ll consider the upgrade if this keeps happening. Thanks for the tip.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12월 1, 2022, 5:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/11 "2022-12-01T05:56:41Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [12월 1, 2022, 6:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/woke-up-to-too-many-requests-error/87710/12 "2022-12-01T06:44:13Z")