Maximum rate of 20/Week exceeded

[xofnot]

HI, i had to reinstall my domain a few times because of issues with a wordpress theme. Every time I had to reinstall the certificate. Now I have a exceeded my rate of 20/week limit and I have a website which needs launching.

1. do I need to wait 7 days or is there a way to reset it earlier
2. If i try to install it every day until the rate is below 20 does this count as well as an installed certificate

My domain is: reseller.ba-sil.be

I ran this command:
via plesk install let’s encryps ssl/tsl certificate

It produced this output:
Invalid response from https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-cert.
Details:
Type: urn:acme:error:rateLimited
Status: 429
Detail: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: reseller.ba-sil.be: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

My web server is (include version):

CPU	Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2640 v4 @ 2.40GHz (2 core(s))
Version	Plesk Onyx v17.5.3_build1705170317.16 os_CentOS 7
OS	CentOS Linux 7.4.1708 (Core)

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: argeweb.nl

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

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

[danb35]

@xofnot

do I need to wait 7 days or is there a way to reset it earlier

There is no way to reset the limit earlier. But it will be seven days from the time the first certificate was issued.

@xofnot

If i try to install it every day until the rate is below 20 does this count as well as an installed certificate

No, the limit is on issued certs. A cert won't be issued if you're beyond the rate limits, so the counter won't go up with unsuccessful attempts.

[sahsanu]

Hi @xofnot,

Regarding this:

@xofnot

Now I have a exceeded my rate of 20/week limit and I have a website which needs launching.

No, you have not reached this limit, you have reached this limit:

We also have a Duplicate Certificate limit of 5 certificates per week. A certificate is considered a duplicate of an earlier certificate if they contain the exact same set of hostnames, ignoring capitalization and ordering of hostnames. For instance, if you requested a certificate for the names [www.example.com, example.com], you could request four more certificates for [www.example.com, example.com] during the week. If you changed the set of names by adding [blog.example.com], you would be able to request additional certificates.

So if you add a new domain to your certificate... reseller.ba-sil.be and for example www.reseller.ba-sil.be you will be able to issue a new cert covering both domains.

Also, you have issued 5 valid certificates, next time you should backup some of them :P.

Cheers,
sahsanu

[xofnot]

Thank you both for explaining.

it is obvious I am still learning about this

never thought about backing up the certificate before reinstalling the domain. now I understand more. I’ll have to wait a few days more…

tx & have a nice day.