There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued

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Hello, Since last week I am getting this error. I waited till today, Monday, because the documentation mentioned that the limit renews per week but unfortunately the error is same this week as well. Someone please help me with it.

My domain is:

I ran this command:
sudo certbot --apache -d codesorbit.com

It produced this output:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Obtaining a new certificate
An unexpected error occurred:
There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: codesorbit.com: see Rate Limits - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.

My web server is (include version):
Apache/2.4.18

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
ipage

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):
no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):
certbot 0.26.1

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Hi @muhammadsawaiz

what of

you don't understand?

You have created 5 identical certificates, that's a waste of resources.

Use one of these certificates 60 - 85 days, then create the next.

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I do understand it. But the issue is that there is no existing certificate for codesorbit.com.

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No, you don't. Where are these certificates you have created?

Tons of certificates - https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/?q=codesorbit.com#ct-logs

Issuer not before not after Domain names LE-Duplicate next LE
Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2021-03-31 2022-03-31 codesorbit.com, www.codesorbit.com - 2 entries
R3 2021-03-30 2021-06-28 codesorbit.com - 1 entries duplicate nr. 5
R3 2021-03-30 2021-06-28 codesorbit.com - 1 entries duplicate nr. 4
R3 2021-03-30 2021-06-28 codesorbit.com - 1 entries duplicate nr. 3
R3 2021-03-30 2021-06-28 codesorbit.com - 1 entries duplicate nr. 2
R3 2021-03-30 2021-06-28 codesorbit.com - 1 entries duplicate nr. 1
R3 2021-01-29 2021-04-29 codesorbit.com - 1 entries
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I deleted these last week and that when I went for to create a new one and got this error mentioned above.

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Why would you do that?

You've got 5 certificates issued on March 30th, from 06:28:43 GMT to 07:32:08 GMT. You've got to wait exactly 7 days (up to the minute precise) from the first certificate to issue another identical cert.

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Deleted? Then you have enough time to wait and to read the basics.

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