# Robots.txt file not accessible - timeout **URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/robots-txt-file-not-accessible-timeout/98245 **Category:** Hosting Support **Created:** [August 30, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/robots-txt-file-not-accessible-timeout/98245 "2024-08-30T15:36:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![anon90933456](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon90933456/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon90933456](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon90933456) #### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/robots-txt-file-not-accessible-timeout/98245/2 "2024-08-30T15:41:31Z")
Hi and welcome to the forum! Maybe this is caused by our security system: > [@Ensuring only web browsers can access your website](https://forum.infinityfree.com/docs?topic=49353): > > InfinityFree is a website hosting service. That means that the hosting accounts we provided are intended for hosting websites. Websites contain pages that are accessed through web browsers. InfinityFree is not intended to be used for file sharing, API hosting, database hosting or background tasks/tools. To help enforce this, free hosting enforces a security system that makes sure that anyone trying to access your website is using a normal web browser. This is done by checking whether the web br… You might try to use Cloudflare since you have a custom domain to bypass it, but if the tool you’re using uses cURL to check your website this might not work as well. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/robots-txt-file-not-accessible-timeout/98245)._