diff --git a/crawl_server/remote_http.py b/crawl_server/remote_http.py
index a9728c0..531999c 100644
--- a/crawl_server/remote_http.py
+++ b/crawl_server/remote_http.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ class HttpDirectory(RemoteDirectory):
 
     )
     MAX_RETRIES = 2
-    TIMEOUT = 1
+    TIMEOUT = 25
 
     def __init__(self, url):
         super().__init__(url)