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I received the following, sans unsubscribe link:

Hello,

Your certificate (or certificates) for the names listed below will expire in 1 days (on 14 Aug 16 23:07 +0000). Please make sure to renew your certificate before then, or visitors to your website will encounter errors.

unixtalk.chat
www.unixtalk.chat

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I don't remember exactly when I registered the certificate, but the domain was created 2016-02-10.

When I ran the following command:

letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto -d unixtalk.chat

it allowed me to create a certificate, but warned me that I was updating the certificate well before it needed to be renewed, and somewhere in there I think it advised me that such early certificate renewals would be throttled.

So...

When should I be renewing certificates obtained through Let's Encrypt?

Thanks,

Christos Hayward
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Certificates from letsencrypt are publically auditable

The rate limits are described here.

When should I be renewing certificates obtained through Let's Encrypt?

You should renew the certificate before it expires. Personally I run a cron job a couple of times a week and renew it at the earliest opportunity that doesn't require it to be forced.

user9517
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