diff --git a/docs/testsite.rst b/docs/testsite.rst
index 9dcbb064a99f0728400a178a52ab8c2218d31c94..a9e471e23f7abafe1cc3658f7e962fd8d60e7973 100644
--- a/docs/testsite.rst
+++ b/docs/testsite.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ In order to deploy the test site, the following steps would normally be taken:
          entity_basename="$(basename "$template" .cfg)"
          [[ $entity_basename == example_ca ]] && continue
          certtool --sec-param normal --generate-privkey --outfile "tls/$entity_basename.key"
+         sleep 1
          certtool --generate-certificate \
            --load-ca-privkey "tls/example_ca.key" \
            --load-ca-certificate "tls/example_ca.pem" \