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 ### Certificate validation
 You'll be connecting to most indexers/trackers via https, so you'll need that to work properly on your system. That means your time zone and time both need to be set *correctly*. It also means your system certificates need to be up to date. And if you're using Mono, `MONO_TLS_PROVIDER=legacy` was a fix from *years* ago that should *not* be used anymore, so make sure you're not setting that accidentally.
 
+### Hitting rate limits
+If you run your Sonarr through a VPN or proxy, you may be competing with 10s or 100s or 1000s of other people all trying to use services like TVDB, Xem and/or your indexers and trackers. Rate limiting and ddos protection are often done by IP address and your VPN/proxy exit point is *one* IP address. Unless you're in a repressive country like China, Australia or South Africa you don't need to VPN/proxy your Sonarr/Radarr.
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 ## Errors
 
 These are some of the common errors you may see when adding an indexer