diff --git a/docs/docs/self-hosting/faq/otp.md b/docs/docs/self-hosting/faq/otp.md
index c3356b7bc..a224d1f66 100644
--- a/docs/docs/self-hosting/faq/otp.md
+++ b/docs/docs/self-hosting/faq/otp.md
@@ -17,3 +17,11 @@ locally by creating a `museum.yaml` and adding the `internal.hardcoded-ott`
 configuration setting to it. See
 [local.yaml](https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/server/configurations/local.yaml)
 in the server source code for details about how to define this.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+>
+> If you're not able to get the OTP with the above methods, make sure that you
+> are actually connecting to your self hosted instance and not to Ente's
+> production servers. e.g. you can use the network requests tab in the browser
+> console to verify that the API requests are going to your server instead of
+> `api.ente.io`.