diff --git a/instances/utils.py b/instances/utils.py
index 31800dd4..9b9b3b48 100644
--- a/instances/utils.py
+++ b/instances/utils.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from libvirt import libvirtError
 from logs.audit import reason, write
 from operations.models import Operation
-from vrtManager.connection import wvmConnect
+from vrtManager.connection import other_hosts, wvmConnect
 from vrtManager.instance import wvmInstance, wvmInstances
 from vrtManager.util import OperationError
 
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def get_clone_free_names(size=10):
     return free_names
 
 
+@other_hosts()
 def paths_used_on_other_computes(compute, own):
     """The paths in own that the VMs and volumes of the panel's other computes
     use (paths_in_use): shared storage holds a file at the same path on every
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ def disk_gib(disks):
 QUOTA_UNVERIFIED = "unverified"
 
 
+@other_hosts()
 def check_user_quota(user, instance, cpu, memory, disk_size):
     """
     Which quota the user would exceed by adding these amounts (instances,
diff --git a/vrtManager/connection.py b/vrtManager/connection.py
index a00392df..949c4f19 100644
--- a/vrtManager/connection.py
+++ b/vrtManager/connection.py
@@ -135,6 +135,17 @@ def _count_on(connection):
     _request.held = connection
 
 
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def other_hosts():
+    """For code that reads other hosts in the middle of a web request, which
+    then goes on with the host it used before, through the objects it kept:
+    the request counts on that host again after the block (HOST_REQUESTS)."""
+    held = getattr(_request, "held", None)
+    yield
+    if held is not None:
+        _count_on(held)
+
+
 request_started.connect(_request_started, dispatch_uid="vrtManager.connection.request_started")
 request_finished.connect(_request_finished, dispatch_uid="vrtManager.connection.request_finished")
 
diff --git a/vrtManager/tests/test_connection.py b/vrtManager/tests/test_connection.py
index 54940e49..27f32693 100644
--- a/vrtManager/tests/test_connection.py
+++ b/vrtManager/tests/test_connection.py
@@ -295,6 +295,25 @@ class HostRequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.end_requests()
         self.assertEqual(self.request("h") + self.request("h"), [])
 
+    def test_a_request_back_from_other_hosts_counts_on_its_own_again(self):
+        def run():
+            request_started.send(sender=None)
+            self.manager.get_connection("h", "u", "p", CONN_TCP)
+            with connection.other_hosts():
+                self.manager.get_connection("g", "u", "p", CONN_TCP)
+            back.set()
+            self.done.wait(5)
+            request_finished.send(sender=None)
+
+        back = threading.Event()
+        thread = threading.Thread(target=run)
+        thread.start()
+        self.threads.append(thread)
+        back.wait(5)
+        # it holds h again (one of two) and left g
+        self.assertEqual(self.request("h") + self.request("g") + self.request("g"), [])
+        self.assertEqual(len(self.request("h")), 1)
+
     def test_threads_outside_a_request_are_not_counted(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.request("h") + self.request("h"), [])
         self.manager.get_connection("h", "u", "p", CONN_TCP)