Unable to register an account with ACME server. Error returned by the ACME server: Error creating new account

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My domain is:cliquepede.com.br

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

It produced this output:Unable to register an account with ACME server. Error returned by the ACME server: Error creating new account

My web server is (include version):Apache apache2' from deb apache2-bin (2.4.58-1ubuntu8.5)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):Ubuntu 24

My hosting provider, if applicable, is:Hostinger

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 2.9.0

There's currently an "API outage". See the big red bar at the top of this Community. The error you're getting is most likely related.

You can see the status of the Let's Encrypt services at https://letsencrypt.status.io/ or follow Let's Encrypt Status for this current incident.

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Sorry to bother, but it may be back today?

We here don't have any information beyond what the status page says. I'm guessing they're too busy trying to fix it to post an update.

If you have an urgent need for a certificate, you might want to look at using some other CAs, like Buypass Go where you should just need to add --server https://api.buypass.com/acme/directory to your certbot command. (There are many other CAs that support ACME and offer free certificates as well, that one just usually requires the least amount of setting other things up first.)

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yeah i am in a complicated situation where the danger is bigger than my knnowledge hahahahha

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