That seems like a really trivial thing, but it's not. Many large, sophisticated companies, filed with teams of highly-paid technologists, have multi-hour outages *every single year* because automatic renewal was not the happy path expected by all tools. LetsEncrypt changing that
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@codinghorror Why was it designed to be renewed in the first place? Doesn't auto renewal kind of render it's purpose obsolete? -
Because $$$? - probably not the reason originally, but certificates is a money printing machine.
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I'm happy to play a role in putting EVERY site on HTTPS!
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It was not the cost of the cert itself (domain validated certs were always cheap or free) but rather the process of booking the expense in the accounting system which prevented automation. Free is prerequisite for automation of a distributed system.
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Couldn't that also be viewed the other way around? That the commitment Letsencrypt had to making their certs free forced them to come up with a way to automate it all. Could be argued that you could probably find a way to automate the process of booking the expense too.
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@successfulsw does this solve the problem some mutual friends are having? -
It depends. I'm not sure if you can get LetEncrypt working with shared hosting.
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Too real!
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