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Funny to see people quibble over a few hundred thousand dollars when they're doing a substantial amount of the heavy lifting to encrypt the web. At over 10 mill

Funny to see people quibble over a few hundred thousand dollars when they're doing a substantial amount of the heavy lifting to encrypt the web. At over 10 million certificates issued in the past year, their staffing costs represent $0.20/cert. For those who've deployed with Let's Encrypt, did you get a quarter's worth of value from their service?

0xmohit 10y ago
To put in other words, if one considers donating a fraction of what would have been charged by any other certificate authority then we can be sure that LetsEncrypt would be able to continue to create a more secure web for all of us.
koolba 10y ago
> For those who've deployed with Let's Encrypt, did you get a quarter's worth of value from their service? The certificate price isn't even the issue. It's the signup + auto-renew! Before LE came out, I would have paid $100 to not have to 1) Not go through the hassle of manually ordering certs and 2) Not having to log back into servers to periodically update them. I get both of those with LE ... the fact that it's free? That's just icing on a very delicious cake!
- rmc 10y ago
  How about donating $100 to Lets Encrypt then? :P
  - koolba 10y ago
    > How about donating $100 to Lets Encrypt then? :P That'd require me getting a refund :P
  - tomcam 10y ago
    After reading your suggestion, I just donated $200--it was $100 but I stepped in for koolba
mrweasel 10y ago
Also if people don't like the Let's Encrypt budget, they don't have to donate, and they certainly don't need to use the service. The important thing, to me, is that Let's Encrypt is being open and honest about how the donation money is spend.