---
title: Flatten the curve of major traffic spikes with a waiting room
summary: A totally stateless solution to hold back new users for a minimum waiting period to smooth out spikes in traffic.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/solutions/examples/waiting-room
---

A totally stateless solution to hold back new users for a minimum waiting period to smooth out spikes in traffic.

## VCL

[Try it in Fastly Fiddle](https://fiddle.fastly.dev/7e14bed4)

## Compute

### Rust

[Try it in Fastly Fiddle](https://fiddle.fastly.dev/acf27bca)