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Version: 1.x

HOST161: Host rate limited

What this means

The host is rate-limiting this store's tills.

The server keeps answering 429 (too many requests) even though the app is already backing off and honoring the server's Retry-After delays. Several tills on one internet connection share one address, so per-source rate limits treat them as a single very busy client. Syncing continues automatically but will lag until the limit is raised.

Your data

No order or product data is affected.

Troubleshoot

  1. Ask the host to raise or exempt the REST API rate limit for the store's own traffic — name the shop's static IP if it has one.
  2. Security services that count repeated error responses (429s) toward a block (for example Sucuri's IDS) may need the store's API excluded from that counter.
  3. If several tills share one connection, mention that to the host: one IP here is a whole shop, not one user.

Details

Code
HOST161 (HOST_RATE_LIMITED)
Severity
warn
Introduced in
WCPOS 1.10.0