Thank you for the reply.
I went back and tried with > box install letsencrypt and it worked. I am using no-ip free DNS and have just created a subdomain with DNS a. I have a domain but I cannot transfer it to CloudFlare DNS becuase of email and more. Could potentialy do only a subdomain, but is there any reason on no going with no-ip?
My usage of CloudFlare in that statement was merely a for instance and nothing more. I am not implying you cannot use anyone else. We however, make heavy use of CloudFlare and most DNS services are the same. As long as your certificate installed and you now have a validated cert on your domain, I am failing to see the additional requests here.
You are right. Everything is working now.
Once again, many thanks.