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I have pages on Netlify with their one-click SSL, and more than once the certificate has (here my ignorance becomes apparent) stopped working, breaking the site

I have pages on Netlify with their one-click SSL, and more than once the certificate has (here my ignorance becomes apparent) stopped working, breaking the site (since https is forced server-side and/or cached by browsers like Safari). To get the site up and running again I've needed to contact support and have them manually issue a new certificate. Maybe this is way easier than handling things on my own, but it seems like an achilles heel of fully automated SSL.

icebraining 9y ago
Sounds like they just have a poor auto-TLS infrastructure. A good system will (1) try to generate multiple times ahead of expiration and (2) warn humans if the cert is about to expire.
- tialaramex 9y ago
  Yup, this is definitely a Quality of Implementation issue, like if you go to a cheap bulk host and every few months your web site is just "down" due to some idiot error they made. If it's cheap or free, well, hard to complain.