Since the big Twitter wave that flooded the Mastodon network and, more broadly, the Fediverse in the fall and winter of 2022, international users have been playing a bigger role for metalhead.club. The service is hosted entirely in Germany, and that was still the case until recently. However, with the increasing number of international members come new challenges: for example, the rapid delivery of content.
As long as users are mainly located in Germany and Europe, latency times to the “Full Metal Server” in Frankfurt are low.
Recently I can into an issue with acme.sh / Let’s Encrypt and a failing ACME validation
Error 404 when running acme.sh --renew -d mydomain.tld
[Wed May 3 15:31:45 UTC 2023] Pending, The CA is processing your order, please just wait. (1/30)
[Wed May 3 15:31:49 UTC 2023] mydomain.tld:Verify error:<ipaddress> Invalid response from https://mydomain.tld/.well-known/acme-challenge/5GmSwd0P0ukTtX302yHHhAuZMCEDJx7MmAaBBoPIKtk: 404
[Wed May 3 15:31:49 UTC 2023] Please add '--debug' or '--log' to check more details.
[Wed May 3 15:31:49 UTC 2023] See: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/How-to-debug-acme.sh