diff --git a/roles/httpd/website/templates/robots.conf b/roles/httpd/website/templates/robots.conf
index f442128e2e..a59eb685e4 100644
--- a/roles/httpd/website/templates/robots.conf
+++ b/roles/httpd/website/templates/robots.conf
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
+## Make sure that we don't skip this because we proxy pass it to a
+## slow backend
+<Location "/robots.txt">
+    ProxyPass !
+</Location>
+
 Alias /robots.txt /srv/web/{{site_name}}-robots.txt