<story><title>Leaving Beta, New Sponsors</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>The only hiccup I&amp;#x27;ve run into is that if you run too many tests during automation setup then they start denying further requests from you for weeks or longer under &amp;quot;too many certificates issued for that domain&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt might be one of the most important initiatives for a secure web. I applaud all their great work.&lt;p&gt;The fact that they have chosen to reduce certificate lifetime in order to encourage automation is a really big win for the security of the web as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pagwon</author><text>From &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;letsencrypt.org&amp;#x2F;getting-started&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;letsencrypt.org&amp;#x2F;getting-started&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying out the client for the first time, you may want to use the --test-cert flag, and a domain name that does not receive live traffic. This will get certificates from our staging server. They won’t be valid in browsers, but otherwise the process will be the same, so you can test a variety of configuration options without hitting the rate limit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaving Beta, New Sponsors</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org//2016/04/12/leaving-beta-new-sponsors.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaytaylor</author><text>The only hiccup I&amp;#x27;ve run into is that if you run too many tests during automation setup then they start denying further requests from you for weeks or longer under &amp;quot;too many certificates issued for that domain&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>K0nserv</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt might be one of the most important initiatives for a secure web. I applaud all their great work.&lt;p&gt;The fact that they have chosen to reduce certificate lifetime in order to encourage automation is a really big win for the security of the web as a whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_0w8t</author><text>For testing just use a local install of boulder server, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;letsencrypt&amp;#x2F;boulder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;letsencrypt&amp;#x2F;boulder&lt;/a&gt; . It is very straightforward to run one especially when using their Docker scripts. That is how I check my setup against letsencrypt during development&amp;#x2F;testing on my laptop.</text></comment>