# Too many requests

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488 "2019-09-06T22:22:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@shaade](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/shaade)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488/1 "2019-09-06T22:22:28Z")

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I have been having problem renewing my certificate so I re-installed my Letsencrpt docker. Apparently, I have made too many requests from the same domain.

My domain is: cloud.life2photography.ca

I ran this command: certbot certonly -d cloud.life2photography.ca

It produced this output: There were too many requests of a given type :: Error creating new order :: too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains: cloud.life2photography.ca: see [https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/)

My web server is (include version):

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): UNRAID server

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:

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 0.38.0

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**Author:** ![danb35](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/danb35/32/70869_2.png) [@danb35](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/danb35)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488/2 "2019-09-06T23:14:00Z")

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> [@shaade](#):
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> too many certificates already issued for exact set of domains

The message is telling you the problem--you've created five identical certs within the past week. Why not use one of them?

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**Author:** ![shaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@shaade](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/shaade)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488/3 "2019-09-06T23:35:03Z")

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I was having and issue with doing a certbot certonly command. My thought is the certificate was being installed but my domain was still being blocked for a lack of a better term. So I uninstalled my Letsencrypt docker on UNRAID and installed it again. That is when I received that error

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**Author:** ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488/4 "2019-09-06T23:40:14Z")

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You’ll have to wait for the rate limit to elapse (~3 days from now - 10 Sep 2019 08:01:36 UTC). There’s no reset button.

The next time you issue certificates, make sure to use a persistent Docker volume with the Let’s Encrypt container, so that it doesn’t create a new certificate every time you run it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/too-many-requests/101488/5 "2019-10-06T23:40:16Z")

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