N8n OPEN AI time request help!

Questions
1

Hi everyone,
I’m running n8n v2.9.4 inside Easypanel on a Hostinger VPS (KVM2). Everything works fine except for one issue: whenever I use OpenAI (ChatGPT node or HTTP request to the OpenAI API), the execution fails after around 10 seconds with a timeout error. Give me this: {
“errorMessage”: “Request timed out.”,
“errorDetails”: {},
“n8nDetails”: {
“time”: “5/3/2026, 19:52:16”,
“n8nVersion”: “2.9.4 (Self Hosted)”,
“binaryDataMode”: “filesystem”
}
}

3

Hi @Alejandro_Medranda1 Welcome!
Consider updating to the latest version , also increasing the AI agent node’s timeout would also be a better take! And revoke your current set of tokens and use a fresh token and then try again.

4

Hey welcome! 10 seconds is way too fast to be an n8n timeout, that’s almost certainly Easypanel’s Traefik proxy cutting the connection. You need to add a custom Traefik config at /etc/easypanel/traefik/config/custom.yaml and bump the respondingTimeouts.readTimeout up. Also worth checking if your Docker MTU matches your VPS network MTU since Hostinger seems to have issues with that specifically.

5

@Alejandro_Medranda1 building on what @achamm said — the Traefik proxy in Easypanel is almost certainly the culprit. The 10-second cutoff is Traefik’s default respondingTimeout, not n8n’s internal timeout.

Here is the specific fix. Create or edit /etc/easypanel/traefik/config/custom.yaml on your VPS:

entryPoints:
  websecure:
    transport:
      respondingTimeouts:
        readTimeout: 300s
        writeTimeout: 300s
        idleTimeout: 300s
  web:
    transport:
      respondingTimeouts:
        readTimeout: 300s
        writeTimeout: 300s
        idleTimeout: 300s

Then restart the Traefik container:

docker restart easypanel_traefik_1

(container name may differ — check with docker ps | grep traefik)

Also worth doing while you are in there: add N8N_DEFAULT_BINARY_DATA_TTL=60 and increase your node-level timeout in the OpenAI node settings from the default 60s to 180s+.

If the issue persists after fixing Traefik, the second most common cause on Hostinger VPS is a firewall rule blocking persistent HTTPS connections after a few seconds. You can test with: curl -v --max-time 30 https://api.openai.com/v1/models from inside the VPS — if it hangs and drops around 10 seconds, it is a network-level issue rather than Traefik.

6

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