I am getting emails every day pointing out “rate limit” issues for grahamjones.net
The associated help page says that I am limited to 50 per day per domain.
I have only applied for certificates for this domain twice in the last month. Yet, every day I am getting notices saying that renewals are not possible due to exceeding the rate limit.
How am I exceeding the rate limit?
How can I stop the annoying emails?
I am using Plesk 17.8.11 on a Debian 9 server.
Plesk has the latest LetsEncrypt extension.
If I initiate a manual renewal, it works OK and no rate limit notice is produced.
So how am I getting rate limit messages when the next renewal on Plesk is not due for another 90 days.
What can be triggering the excessive renewals?
I can’t find anything on the server that is doing it.
well, this page don't quite agree. It's said that this test site had problems and it missed quite a few certificates these last weeks, yet it's counting no less than 54 certificates for your domain in this period
My own site has consumed 3 LE certificates last month.
All I have is a Plesk server, with a LetsEncrypt extension.
That extension works perfectly for all the other sites on the server.
I have not changed any settings.
So why are there all those entries for one domain on the server?
I am not technical. I have not done anything manual. All I have done is use the LetsEncrypt extension on Plesk for this domain in exactly the same way as for all the other domains on the server - all of which are working OK and the certificate renewals working properly.
How is that happening? That’s what I need to understand and stop.
All I have done is use the Plesk LetsEncrypt extension. It works perfectly OK on all the other domains on the server with no rate limiting issues or failures.
Sorry, I have no knowledge on Plesk; as a wild guess, maybe when you think that you renew you are triggering a new certificate ? when you use graphical consoles like that, it’s very nice but when things go wrong it’s difficult to see what happens without knowing how to access the logs.