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Staging Environment

We provide a staging environment for testing and developing your own client. This environment is suitable for those developers that aim at testing before going to production environment.

The ACME URL for staging environment is

https://acme-staging.castle.cloud/acme/directory

If your are using our client ACME Email Client, simply use the -t, --test flag.

Rate Limits

The rate limits applied to staging environment are more flexible and hardly will be reached. If you encounter that a limit is reached, probably your code has a critical bug. Compared to production rate limits, staging limits are more generous.

The following rates are applied:

  • Max names per certificates ([email protected], [email protected]…): 10
  • Max certificates per name per week: 3000
  • Max validations per name per account per hour: 60
  • Max new accounts per IP per 3 hours: 50
  • Max new accounts per IP range per 3 hours: 2500
  • Max pending authorizations per account: 300
  • Max new orders per account per 3 hours: 1500

Root Certificate

The root certificate for staging environment is not present in any device and it will not be. The root certificate is named CASTLE Root Fake RSA CA. The intermediate CA is named CASTLE FakeS1 CA. You can add the staging root certificate in your trust store for testing purposes. Do not add it to production trust stores, as it just for testing purposes.