I made a mistake in the development process.. It took too many renewals for my domain certificate.. Please help in returning my certificate

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My domain is: kgmaxpro.com

I ran this command: sudo certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/kgmaxpro.com/public -d kgmaxpro.com -d www.kgmaxpro.com

It produced this output: An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates (5) already issued for this exact set of domains in the last 168 hours: kgmaxpro.com,www.kgmaxpro.com: see Rate Limits - Let's Encrypt

My web server is (include version): nginx

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.4

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: cloud.digitalocean.com

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): no

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):

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Without the original private key, the (publicly available) certificates are useless.

Where did the certs and keys go?

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The server and all keys have been removed..

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Then you either have to wait or request a cert for a non-exact set of domains.

Also, please use the staging environment for testing in a development setting.

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Thank you.. I didn't know about the test environment before now
Please help me as I don't know how long to wait and this will affect my site negatively..

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The specific rate limit is a sliding window of 7 days. The other part of my first sentence is a hint on how to bypass this specific rate limit.

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I hope destroyed also with something like shred or what every securely destroys files on your media.

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Thank you.. it was done safely and we didn't lose much ..

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