diff --git a/pypistats/templates/api.html b/pypistats/templates/api.html
index cc6a9b3..32457b9 100644
--- a/pypistats/templates/api.html
+++ b/pypistats/templates/api.html
@@ -19,6 +19,20 @@
         <li>All download data is updated once daily.</li>
     </ul>
     </p>
+    <h2>Etiquette</h2>
+    <p>
+        If you plan on using the API to download historical data for every python package in the database (e.g. for some
+        personal data exploration), <b>DON'T</b>. This website runs on limited resources and you will degrade
+        the site performance by doing this. It will also take a very long time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        You are much better off extracting the data directly from the Google
+        BigQuery <a href="https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/the-psf:pypi.downloads">pypi downloads tables</a>. You
+        can query up to 1TB of data FREE every month before having to pay. The volume of data queried for this website
+        falls well under that limit (each month of data is less than 100 GB queried) and you will have your data
+        in a relatively short amount of time. <a
+            href="https://packaging.python.org/guides/analyzing-pypi-package-downloads/">Here is a quick guide</a>.
+    </p>
     <h2>API Client</h2>
     <p>
         The <a href="{{ url_for('general.package_page', package='pypistats') }}">pypistats</a> <a
diff --git a/pypistats/views/api.py b/pypistats/views/api.py
index 7eb4c90..021ac6e 100644
--- a/pypistats/views/api.py
+++ b/pypistats/views/api.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ def api_downloads_recent(package):
 @blueprint.route("/packages/<package>/overall")
 def api_downloads_overall(package):
     """Get the overall download time series of a package."""
+    # abort(503)
     package = package.replace(".", "-")
     mirrors = request.args.get("mirrors")
     if mirrors == "true":
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ def api_downloads_system(package):
 
 def generic_downloads(model, package, arg, name):
     """Generate a generic response."""
+    # abort(503)
     package = package.replace(".", "-")
     category = request.args.get(arg)
     if category is not None:
diff --git a/pypistats/views/error.py b/pypistats/views/error.py
index 616df23..536a400 100644
--- a/pypistats/views/error.py
+++ b/pypistats/views/error.py
@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ def handle_404(err):
 def handle_500(err):
     """Return 500."""
     return "500", 500
+
+
+@blueprint.app_errorhandler(503)
+def handle_503(err):
+    """Return 500."""
+    return "503 TEMPORARILY DISABLED", 503