# Avoiding the Letsencrypt limit
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 3, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949 "2022-03-03T12:36:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Vaping\_Community](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vaping_Community)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/1 "2022-03-03T12:36:47Z")
Having already hit the limit and having to wait, I know the frustration so I need to know.
- Does a rebuild ask for a certificate every time?
- can I comment out the letsencrypt part in app.yml after getting a certificate, will this break something?
- Is there a way to rebuild without asking for a certificate?
I’ll need to rebuild when I copy uploads and backups to new the storage drive, if it doesn’t work I’ll need to revert changes and rebuild again, I don’t want to hit the limit again and have to wait another week.
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/2 "2022-03-03T12:49:43Z")
> [@Vaping\_Community](#):
>
> need to rebuild when I copy uploads and backups to new the storage drive
No you don’t. Just
```
./launcher destroy app; ./launcher start app
```
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### Author:  [@Vaping\_Community](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vaping_Community)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/3 "2022-03-03T12:52:39Z")
Thank you I’ll try that out and let you know
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### Author:  [@Vaping\_Community](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vaping_Community)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/4 "2022-03-03T13:39:21Z")
@pfaffman In app.yml it states
`After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild`
I’ll be making changes to that file per this tutorial - [Move Uploads and Backups to DigitalOcean Block Storage](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-uploads-and-backups-to-digitalocean-block-storage/89274) for the new storage
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/5 "2022-03-03T22:01:46Z")
Well, that’s only mostly true. I’m pretty sure that a destroy/start is all you need.
EDIT: And I just confirmed moving the location of postgres, editing data.yml and destroy/start worked just fine.
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### Author:  [@Vaping\_Community](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vaping_Community)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/6 "2022-03-05T13:12:43Z")
@pfaffman thanks for all your help, I finally got everything to work and I’m using a temp domain for SSL until next week.
Followed the tutorial exact and used your suggestions to get it all up and running, thanks again 🍻
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avoiding-the-letsencrypt-limit/219949/7 "2022-04-04T13:12:44Z")
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