Nice thanks for the updates
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Thank you for all your hard work, especially on a Sunday! So much respect for fellow SysAdmins!
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We’re in the process of restoring API services right now. Before we re-enable certificate issuance we’re going to process the orphaned certificates queue.
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thank you for your work 
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I now have “Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains”. Like seriously, my backend has been down for hours and all my API services can’t be reached by my clients and I can’t ask for a certificate because I’ve tried to solve the problem.
I have deleted every certbot configuration files because I thought the problem was from my side. How can I retrieve a certificate?
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same here --> too many certificates already issued
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Certificates that were issued during the outage and later incorporated into the database are currently counting against rate limits. We realize that means some people will incorrectly see rate limited status even though they never got certificates during the outage. We’re discussing ways to fix, and will update when we have a conclusion.
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Quick update: We have an implementation plan to fix the rate limit issues and working on fixing it.
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Has the fix been implemented? For those effected should we attempt to renew ?
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As a quick fix for “too many certificate”, we grabbed the latest certificate from here, https://check-your-website.server-daten.de and then matched the certificate with correct key located at /etc/letsencrypt/ keys and updated the .conf file accordingly. It seemed to work for us. Hope it helps for any one looking to get their site running ASAP. 
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Oh, that works? I've checked some domains, normally, the leaf certificate is downloaded, if Certspotter has only the pre-certificate.
But I didn't found such download links (checked a few hours earlier).
May work since Letsencrypt works again.
Good to know - thanks! 
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Now tested. The domain ronanarraes.com - listet there - @Ronis_BR
With
The server experienced an internal error :: Error finalizing order
The old check (17:00, Berlin, +01):
Only Precerts, 13 created today, so the 5 identical certificates limit didn't block.
Now rechecked the domain (21:37):
Now the leaf certificates are available.
To use: Find the private key with the same time (may be one hour wrong), download the leaf certificate -> install it manual.
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We’ve now applied the fix for rate limit issues. Anyone affected by rate limits should try again now.
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I was able to renew my cert. I would like to thank you and your team for the communication. Not going to lie i felt sick when the rate limit became an issue. All of my services are up and running!!
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Thanks a lot for your hard work, guys!
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