The Getting Started guide mentions to renew daily, which would mean renewing 7 times per week, but the Rate Limit doc says that the Certificates/FQDN is 5 per week. Is there a discrepancy, or are the numbers for different things?

The renew command will take a look at all active certificates and renew those who are close to expiring - which is currently defined as 30 days before the expiration date. If your certificates aren’t due for renewal yet, the client won’t renew them. The reason why a daily cronjob is recommended is …

[SOLVED] How often to renew?

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trusktr April 4, 2016, 2:54pm 3

Thanks @pfg, now it makes sense. :]

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[SOLVED] How often to renew?

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