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My guess is that they have a manual pipeline where it requires some effort from a physical person to setup SSL. This $50 is to offset their cost of setup.
by redm 6y ago
My guess is that they have a manual pipeline where it requires some effort from a physical person to setup SSL. This $50 is to offset their cost of setup.
- mattmanser 6y agoIt takes a programmer like half a day to automate a let's encrypt process, maybe a couple if you want to make it really robust. For example, these days most wordpress hosts do this for you for free. Not that I think it's unreasonable to charge for this, just saying it's probably not the reason.