diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 45cd778..610f37d 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"anonymousoverflow/env"
 	"anonymousoverflow/src/middleware"
 	"anonymousoverflow/src/routes"
+	"anonymousoverflow/src/utils"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
@@ -14,8 +15,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 func main() {
-
 	env.RunChecks()
+	utils.ReqSetup()
 
 	host := os.Getenv("HOST")
 	if host == "" {
@@ -29,7 +30,6 @@ func main() {
 
 	if os.Getenv("DEV") != "true" {
 		gin.SetMode(gin.ReleaseMode)
-		fmt.Printf("Listening on %s:%s\n", host, port)
 	}
 
 	r := gin.Default()
@@ -92,5 +92,6 @@ func main() {
 	sePingCheck := checks.NewPingCheck("https://stackexchange.com", "GET", 5000, nil, nil)
 	healthcheck.New(r, config.DefaultConfig(), []checks.Check{soPingCheck, sePingCheck})
 
+	fmt.Printf("Starting the web server on %s:%s\n", host, port)
 	r.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", host, port))
 }
diff --git a/src/utils/request.go b/src/utils/request.go
index f8518de..37e8e77 100644
--- a/src/utils/request.go
+++ b/src/utils/request.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
+	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/go-resty/resty/v2"
@@ -79,17 +80,20 @@ func (s *Solution) HttpCookies() []*http.Cookie {
 }
 
 const USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.3"
+const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 120
 
-var solution *Solution = nil
+var (
+	solution   *Solution = nil
+	fs_url     string    = ""
+	fs_timeout int       = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+)
 
 func Solve(target string) error {
-	fsurl := os.Getenv("FLARESOLVER")
-
-	if fsurl == "" {
+	if fs_url == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("flaresolver is not configured")
 	}
 
-	fsurl, _ = url.JoinPath(fsurl, "/v1")
+	url, _ := url.JoinPath(fs_url, "/v1")
 	response := Response{}
 	client := resty.New()
 
@@ -97,10 +101,10 @@ func Solve(target string) error {
 		SetBody(Request{
 			Cmd:         "request.get",
 			Url:         target,
-			MaxTimeout:  40_000,
+			MaxTimeout:  fs_timeout * 100,
 			OnlyCookies: true,
 		}).
-		Post(fsurl)
+		Post(url)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("request failed: %s", err.Error())
@@ -148,3 +152,23 @@ func GET(target string, no_retry ...bool) (*resty.Response, error) {
 
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("solution did not work")
 }
+
+func ReqSetup() {
+	fs_url = os.Getenv("FLARESOLVER")
+	timeout := os.Getenv("TIMEOUT")
+
+	if timeout == "" {
+		return
+	}
+
+	if to, err := strconv.Atoi(timeout); err != nil {
+		fmt.Printf("failed to parse timeout: %s\n", err.Error())
+	} else if to <= 0 {
+		fmt.Println("invalid timeout, timeout should be greater than zero")
+	} else {
+		return
+	}
+
+	fmt.Printf("using the default timeout instead (%d secs)\n", DEFAULT_TIMEOUT)
+	fs_timeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+}