Is a Test Server Available?

mike.bronner · December 4, 2015, 6:10pm

is there a test server without rate limits we can use to test our implementation?

jhass · December 4, 2015, 6:11pm

Yes, acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org imposes no rate limits.

mike.bronner · December 4, 2015, 6:13pm

We received the following message:

Max retries exceeded with url: /directory

Is that not a rate limit error?

mike.bronner · December 4, 2015, 6:14pm

Seems it was a fluke, we retried and it worked. Thanks!

jhass · December 4, 2015, 6:15pm

I guess there still are rate limits, but they’re so high that I didn’t run into any yet.

obicho · March 22, 2016, 10:10pm

@jhass I am running into similar issue. wonder how to overcome this. any thoughts?

nginx_1 | Waiting for folder /etc/letsencrypt/live/bo.caminofinancial.net to exist
letsencrypt_1 | 2016-03-22 21:58:29,441:INFO:letsencrypt.cli:Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
letsencrypt_1 | 2016-03-22 21:58:29,756:INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org
letsencrypt_1 | An unexpected error occurred:
letsencrypt_1 | ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘acme-staging.api.letsencrypt.org’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /directory (Caused by NewConnectionError(’<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f37a5fd02d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known’,))