Error creating new order :: too many certific ates already issued for exact set of domains

Am hosting http://njoo.co.ke on Google Cloud Platform. After successfully deploying ssl for several times, i suddenly got the error (An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certific
ates already issued for exact set of domains: njoo.co.ke,www.njoo.co.ke: see https://letsencr
ypt.org/docs/rate-limits/)

Honestly, I kent find any help in this Forum. SUPER DEPRESSING. Anyway, who cares?

Hi @ndekere254

I’ve moved your question to a new topic, that makes things easier.

You have created 5 identical certificates ( https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=njoo.co.ke ):

CertSpotter-Id Issuer not before not after Domain names LE-Duplicate next LE
922546707 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-20 21:53:11 2019-08-18 21:53:11 shop.njoo.co.ke, www.shop.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 1
922499799 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-20 21:16:11 2019-08-18 21:16:11 njoo.co.ke, www.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 5 next Letsencrypt certificate: 2019-05-26 11:02:41
920235234 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-19 15:08:25 2019-08-17 15:08:25 njoo.co.ke, www.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 4
920071994 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-19 11:49:44 2019-08-17 11:49:44 njoo.co.ke, www.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 3
920035166 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-19 11:12:29 2019-08-17 11:12:29 njoo.co.ke, www.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 2
920024951 CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, O=Let’s Encrypt, C=US 2019-05-19 11:02:41 2019-08-17 11:02:41 njoo.co.ke, www.njoo.co.ke
2 entries duplicate nr. 1
875407809 CN=CloudFlare Inc ECC CA-2, O=“CloudFlare, Inc.”, L=San Francisco, C=US, ST=CA 2019-04-22 00:00:00 2020-04-22 12:00:00 *.njoo.co.ke, njoo.co.ke, sni.cloudflaressl.com
3 entries
849588338 CN=“cPanel, Inc. Certification Authority”, O=“cPanel, Inc.”, L=Houston, C=US, ST=TX 2019-04-06 00:00:00 2019-07-05 23:59:59 mine.njoo.co.ke, www.mine.njoo.co.ke
2 entries

There are a lot of older certificates - first from 2018-11-05 11:56:55.

Where are the five newest certificates?

Your configuration is curious, there are no ip addresses:

Host T IP-Address is auth. ∑ Queries ∑ Timeout
njoo.co.ke A yes 2 0
AAAA yes
www.njoo.co.ke C njoo.co.ke yes 1 0

What’s your configuration? #help has a standard template:


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