diff --git a/etc/archboot/server-update.conf b/etc/archboot/server-update.conf
index f21e60094..b377de061 100644
--- a/etc/archboot/server-update.conf
+++ b/etc/archboot/server-update.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # created by Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
 # set your managed architectures
 _SERVER_ARCH="x86_64 aarch64 riscv64"
+# set your time before next architecture is built (value in seconds)
+_SERVER_WAIT="3600"
 # set program updates that trigger new server release
 _TRIGGER="archboot archboot-arm archboot-riscv archlinux-keyring 
           archlinuxarm-keyring bcachefs-tools btrfs-progs coreutils
diff --git a/usr/bin/archboot-server-update.sh b/usr/bin/archboot-server-update.sh
index 74640ea55..f13723ac1 100755
--- a/usr/bin/archboot-server-update.sh
+++ b/usr/bin/archboot-server-update.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ for i in ${_SERVER_ARCH}; do
         # if trigger successful, release new image to server
         if rg -qw "${k}" "${i}"/var/log/pacman.log; then
             archboot-"${i}"-server-release.sh || echo "Error: ${i} release!" >> error.log
-            sleep 3600
+            sleep "${_SERVER_WAIT}" 
             break
         fi
     done