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There are plenty of reasons to pay for a certificate. Wildcard certificates only came out last month on LE, and people might still be weary to switch their prim
by mynameisvlad 9y ago
There are plenty of reasons to pay for a certificate. Wildcard certificates only came out last month on LE, and people might still be weary to switch their primary site over so quickly. Additionally, there's still a few cases I can think of where a custom certificate might be needed.
For instance, I recently consolidated my personal projects and site onto one server. I needed a single certificate that'd cover two domains. Digicert combined two of my orders into one certificate with two wildcard SANs. You wouldn't be able to do that with LE.
Edit: I was under the impression you couldn't do multiple wildcard SANs in LE but according to some forum posts it's fully possible as long as validation passes.
- gsich 9y agoBesides having a fancy name in the URL bar I can't think of any.
- Symbiote 9y agoUsing TLS on a server which doesn't have outbound/inbound access to the Internet/LetsEncrypt servers. Sharing a (wildcard) certificate between multiple servers.
- gsich 9y agoThats a distribution problem. You don't need to be accessible from the outside internet to use a LE certificate. You can request a cert from another one, then copy it. (Either manually or automatically, that is up to you)
- comex 9y agoYou can definitely get certs from LetsEncrypt that have SANs for multiple unrelated domains. I haven’t tried out wildcard certificates at all yet, but I would be surprised if it didn’t allow combining those features…
- timlardner 9y agoI've got two wildcard domains that are completely unrelated from LetsEncrypt.
- xnyan 9y agoIt worked for me as soon as wildcards went live.