espie mentioned that the clue to use the staging server could be more explicit. Maybe this is enough and not too intrusive?
Index: examples/acme-client.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/examples/acme-client.conf,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -p -r1.4 acme-client.conf --- examples/acme-client.conf 17 Sep 2020 09:13:06 -0000 1.4 +++ examples/acme-client.conf 9 May 2023 18:46:15 -0000 @@ -27,5 +27,7 @@ domain example.com { alternative names { secure.example.com } domain key "/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key" domain full chain certificate "/etc/ssl/example.com.fullchain.pem" - sign with letsencrypt + # Test with the staging server to avoid aggressive rate-limiting. + #sign with letsencrypt + sign with letsencrypt-staging }