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I have been using lets encrypt now for about a year for about a hundred domains, and I never had to do a manual renewal. The biggest benefit of lets encrypt fo
by belorn 8y ago
I have been using lets encrypt now for about a year for about a hundred domains, and I never had to do a manual renewal.
The biggest benefit of lets encrypt for companies is not the price. Having someone responsible for renewal, getting the bills through the billing system and approved, getting it installed. All those steps involve employees that could be spending their time on something more important. If any part of the chain fail there will also be a massive fallout which can be very costly. Automated renewal changes all this to a initial cost during construction of the service, usually during the per-production phase.
My concern would not be about the automated renewal if all employees instantly dropped dead. Sooner or later a service will hang, some resources exhausted, and things stop to work.
- dbg31415 8y ago> I have been using lets encrypt now for about a year for about a hundred domains, and I never had to do a manual renewal. Same, it's magic. Works perfectly. Only annoying part, UptimeRobot spits out some warnings, "Your certificate is set to expire soon..." but thanks to auto-renew I don't have to do anything about it.
- craftyguy 8y ago> I have been using lets encrypt now for about a year for about a hundred domains, and I never had to do a manual renewal. One data point does not make a very useful statistic, and most definitely does not make a meaningful statistic for making decisions about production systems.
- belorn 8y agoThat is fair but then we also do not have multiple data points in a formal study to say that you will need manual renewals. I personally find anecdotal information useful from people who work professionally on it when there is no other information available. I find the top comment in this thread interesting even if its just a single data point from a diesel engine mechanic.