diff --git a/roles/httpd/templates/010-iiab.conf.j2 b/roles/httpd/templates/010-iiab.conf.j2
index ef2492c36..281cfb49d 100755
--- a/roles/httpd/templates/010-iiab.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/httpd/templates/010-iiab.conf.j2
@@ -38,7 +38,16 @@ ServerTokens OS
 #
 # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
 #
-Timeout 120
+# Timeout 120
+#
+# 2020-01-15: To mitigate the worst of Kiwix search timeouts, let's comment out
+# the above "Timeout 120" and defer to Apache default "Timeout 300" as set in
+# /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
+# Let's also raise NGINX's default "proxy_read_timeout 60s;" somewhere like...
+# /etc/nginx/nginx.conf or /etc/nginx/server.conf or /etc/nginx/proxy_params and /etc/nginx/conf.d/kiwix-nginx.conf ?
+# More background details on this ongoing Kiwix problem:
+# https://github.com/iiab/iiab/pull/2063
+# https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-tools/issues/345
 
 #
 # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than