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My domain is: renkaba.selfhost.eu
I ran this command: /usr/local/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto certonly -d renkaba.selfhost.eu --apache -m homeguard@gmx.de
It produced this output: urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited :: There were too many requests of a given type :: Error finalizing order :: too many certificates already issued for: selfhost.eu: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
My web server is (include version): apache2
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): linux
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): yes
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot-auto --version
I tried to receive the certs several time. due to my ignorance I tried to often. Then I read the docs and installed certs from the staging server, which works (rate-limit higher). After that I tried several times to replace the staging server cert with a production one, but always got rate-limit error. So I gave up and waited one week after the first rate-limit error. This was yesterday and again I got rate-limit error (see above). Why? Does the rate-limit “clock” resets with every try, even I dont get a new cert? If not why does it not work after one week?
selfhost.eu is not a public suffix. Your best bet is to get off that and onto a domain that appears on the Public Suffix List, or preferably your own domain.
You might be able to get a cert right now, but somebody may have snatched that window up.
1: Keep the existing certificate for now
2: Renew & replace the cert (limit ~5 per 7 days)
Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press ‘c’ to cancel): 2
Renewing an existing certificate
An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error finalizing order :: too many certificates already issued for: selfhost.e
u: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
Ok, means I can get a cert only by chance for selfhost.eu. Can I check how many are issued already or just keep on trying, if I want to stay with this provider?
@_az already pointed to a website listing the most recent certificate issuances. But that site uses Certificate Logs, which can lag a little bit behind. So even if that site says you can get a new certificate, it might be already outdated info.