Bumping into rate limits

Recently I've been getting this error a few times a day.

Slow down, you're making too many requests.
Please retry again in 4 seconds.
Error code: cloud_60_secs_limit.

I know I'm not doing too many requests, and this usually only happens at the busy times of the day.

I can see this website is simply hosted by Discourse themselves, but the only guess I can take at the cause of an issue like this is that this could happen when you're rate-limiting the CDN IP instead of the end-user IP. In that case you'd need to rate-limit based on the actual end-user IP which most CDNs report under HTTP headers like X-Real-Ip. But again, this might not be the actual issue, can't tell.

Are you using a VPN or a proxy? If so, Discourse may see too many requests from the VPN or proxy server, made by other users or bots.

I do use a VPN but not a usual one. I own the IP so I know I'm the only one making requests from my IP.

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