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docs/rate-limits: Document Overall Requests Limit and style tables #1794

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24 changes: 22 additions & 2 deletions content/en/docs/rate-limits.md
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title: Rate Limits
slug: rate-limits
date: 2018-01-04
lastmod: 2024-12-10
lastmod: 2024-12-12
show_lastmod: true
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| 30 | 124 days (4.08 months) |
| 40 | 92 days (3.03 months) |
| 120 | 30 days |
<p></p>

### Common Causes

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</div>

# Overall Requests Limit

In addition to our [account registration](#account-registration-limits) and
[certificate issuance](#certificate-issuance-limits) limits, there are
per-endpoint overall request limits that apply per-IP address. These are
enforced by our load balancers and are designed to protect the ACME API from
being overwhelmed by clients that make too many requests at once.

Endpoint | Requests per IP | Burst Capacity
|--------------------|------------------|-----------------|
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| /acme/new-nonce | 20 | 10 |
| /acme/new-account | 5 | 15 |
| /acme/new-order | 300 | 200 |
| /acme/revoke-cert | 10 | 100 |
| /acme/renewal-info | 1000 | 100 |
| /acme/* | 250 | 125 |
| /directory | 40 | N/A |

Subscribers who exceed these limits will receive a `503 Service Unavailable`
HTTP response code. The response will include a `Retry-After` header.

# Limit Exemptions for Renewals

Let's Encrypt recognizes a new certificate order as a "renewal" in two ways: the
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background-color: #dee;
}

table {
width: 100%;
border-collapse: collapse;
margin: $spacing-unit 0;
font-size: 16px;
color: $text-color;
border-radius: 8px;

th, td {
padding: 12px 15px;
text-align: left;
border-bottom: 1px solid $grey-color-light;
}

th {
background-color: $grey-color-dark;
color: #fff;
font-weight: 600;
text-transform: none;
letter-spacing: 0.025em;
}
}

/**
* Wrapper
*/
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