You can go through my Twitter history for Oct 19 and find annual versions of this tweet, followed by annual advice from people. It has become a treasured part of running Pinboard
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Is this an unplanned semi-annual "test your pinboard account backups" drill?
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And set a calendar reminder?
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You don't automate it via Let's Encrypt?
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nope
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Thank you!
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Shouldn't have taken the batteries out of your cert expiry detector
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I highly recommend monitoring for that. Getting the heads up 30 days in advance saves this kind of embarrassment. Especially helpful if you use letsencrypt, since you get to fix the auto renewal process before it expires.
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+1 to Let's Encrypt, with automated renewals. Life is too short to manage SSL certificate renewals manually.
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I love Let's Encrypt! I wish it could automate renewal of a star certificate, though.
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