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Looks neat, but it's prohibitively expensive to use for a personal website which doesn't generate revenue. I use CloudFlare (at $5/mo), but close to $17/mo for
by tristor 9y ago
Looks neat, but it's prohibitively expensive to use for a personal website which doesn't generate revenue. I use CloudFlare (at $5/mo), but close to $17/mo for this service dwarfs my hosting + CDN fees together. I'd love to see a free or low-cost service that just checks SSL cert expiration and sends me an email 30 days before it expires. Would be great for making sure my personal website isn't broken without breaking the bank.
- sametmax 9y agoDoesn't your SSL provider send you said mail ?
- tristor 9y agoYes, but that's based on their information, it's not "monitoring". Monitoring is an external system not influenced by the others which observes and reports. It'd be nice to be able to monitor this, although for my personal website its not absolutely critical. Do you think your SSL provider is infallible?
- tarr11 9y agoJust use letsencrypt, it renews automatically
- Karunamon 9y agoAnd even if you don’t set that up they still email you when it’s about to expire
- detaro 9y agoWhich isn't the same as monitoring if you actually use it. Seen more than enough LE sites where someone configured server reloading wrongly (and in at least one case, a package update overrode their config), which means they have a valid LE cert (and thus no LE notification) but clients get the expired one.
- dbuxton 9y agoYou mean, like https://certificatemonitor.org/ https://certificatemonitor.org/?
- jaden 9y agohttps://secure.expirify.com https://secure.expirify.com is a free option that works well. I believe I discovered it on HN.