Hi. I own a SaaS platform with about 1500 clients with different domains. We use dehydrated through lua-resty-auto-ssl to negotiate the certificates.
Right now we are getting this error:
{
“type”: “urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited”,
“detail”: “Error creating new order :: too many new orders recently: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/”,
“status”: 429
}
Does that mean that in 3h we will be able to register 300 new certificates? Or do all these failed requests also count as new orders?
If you try create a new order which is immediately rejected, it does not count to your rate limit. For example, if you try create an order for google.com.
If you create a new order but it does not result in a new certificate being issued (e.g. if you fail one of the authorizations), the order still counts towards your rate limit.
If you create a new order that results in a new certificate being issued, the order counts towards your rate limit as well.
This falls into the first category, because it's immediately rejected. It doesn't count.