The message means what it says, you're trying to request a certificate for orders.newtonpro.com but connection attempts to it are being refused. I can't get to it either.
$ curl http://orders.newtonpro.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test
curl: (7) Failed to connect to orders.newtonpro.com port 80 after 33 ms: Connection refused
So, either the server doesn't have the web server running, or there's some firewall in front of it that is blocking the connection. In order to use HTTP-01 authentication to get a certificate, you need to have your http site working first.
The web server was running before a power outage on Monday. Then after it came up after the outage the website was unreachable. I have been trying to get a newer version of SLES installed, and now have it at SLES12 SP5. I will try again after I am able to get to the webserver again. Thanks for your input, as I had forgot that the process requires the Letsencrypt server has to talk to the server the certificate is being issued / renewed for.
Using your suggestion I was able to unravel the Apache2 issues the upgrade was not able to fix in my configuration. I was then able to renew the certificate normally. Thanks for help!