The "too many certificates" error

[agemo]

I think this is killing a discourse instance. It’s not getting past the “Oops…” heavy load message.

Create new order error. Le_OrderFinalize not found. {

  "type": "urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited",

  "detail": "too many certificates (5) already issued for this exact set of identifiers in the last 168h0m0s, retry after ....

I see others have encountered this for whatever reason, but is there solution?

[NateDhaliwal]

I think you’d just need to wait a few hours and try again. IIRC the rate limit resets on an hourly basis. You could also request for a www prefix on the domain to get a new cert and reset the count.

@pfaffman

What I’d probably recommend is to add www to the hostname so you get certs for both (but maybe you already did that, so you could add a third name, just to get a new cert).

Set up Let’s Encrypt with multiple domains / redirects is supposed to help.