# Certificates limit

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505 "2018-07-11T18:39:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![pavelevap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@pavelevap](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/pavelevap)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505/1 "2018-07-11T18:39:17Z")

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My domain is: mercury.foundation

I ran this command: cerbot

It produced this output: An unexpected error occurred:  
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: mercury.foundation: see [https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/)

My web server is (include version): nginx

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): ubuntu 16.1

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: hetzner

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): no

I was trying to renew this cert but it says me about some errors about (not about limits). I did it few times, but it gaves me same errors. So, i just delete all folders and was tying to make a new cert, but i used all 5 tryes when was trying to fix errors. So now my website without any cert and i cant wait a week. what to do?

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**Author:** ![rg305](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/rg305/32/91314_2.png) [@rg305](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/rg305)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505/2 "2018-07-11T18:42:04Z")

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Try adding another name to the cert:  
`-d mercury.foundation -d www.mercury.foundation`

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**Author:** ![JuergenAuer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/juergenauer/32/26491_2.png) [@JuergenAuer](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/JuergenAuer)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505/3 "2018-07-11T19:30:06Z")

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Hi @pavelevap

> [@pavelevap](#):
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> There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: mercury.foundation:

there are 5 certificates created yesterday:

[https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates?cert\_search\_auth=&cert\_search\_cert=&cert\_search=include\_expired:false;include\_subdomains:false;domain:mercury.foundation&lu=cert\_search](https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates?cert_search_auth=&cert_search_cert=&cert_search=include_expired:false;include_subdomains:false;domain:mercury.foundation&lu=cert_search)

But your website [https://mercury.foundation/](https://mercury.foundation/) has a certificate of dev.mercury.foundation.

So you may have new certificates, but they are not used.

What says certbot certificates?

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**Author:** ![pavelevap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@pavelevap](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/pavelevap)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505/4 "2018-07-12T00:55:40Z")

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Thanks, it helps. Fixed.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certificates-limit/66505/5 "2018-08-11T00:55:54Z")

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