There was quite a bit of gnashing of teeth in my basement yesterday.
Last weekend I thought I had everything planned properly. I was going to start a new site, change the domain registrar, renew the SSL certifcates I already had and get new ones for the new site.
Between a couple of spelling mistakes, putting the certifcates in the wrong order and not allowing enough time for the DNS records to propagate I made a complete hash of things. I couldn’t restart Apache, as by then the cetifcates names didn’t match the server. By the time I thought I had fixed everything I got a messsage from Let’s Encrypt saying I had made too many requests and had to wait 32 hours before I could try again.
Everything up and running again now and I’m happy again, but I most certainly was not yesterday.