I appreciate the urgency of the issue BUT at this time the client is refusing to renew the certificate because of rate limits! Can those be lifted (or slightly increased) for the next two days? Otherwise, what should I do exactly?
# certbot renew --force-renewal
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/qa.foobar.com.conf
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Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Renewing an existing certificate
Attempting to renew cert (qa.foobar.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/qa.foobar.com.conf produced an unexpected error: urn:acme:error:rateLimited :: There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new cert :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: qa.foobar.com,qa.foobar.io: see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/. Skipping.
All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/qa.foobar.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
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All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/qa.foobar.com/fullchain.pem (failure)
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1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)