David,

Thanks for reaching out again (and for your patience!) -- if we can see it in action now that it's happening again, we can diagnose it.  Can you tell me how you see the "Limit Exceeded" error?  The SSL request is done on instance startup, so it shouldn't be exposed.  Are you looking in the logs or are you doing the request by hand?

In any case, I'm also going to build a VM for you to download -- this way we'll be working on two fronts to getting you up and running.

Christian