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Debatable whether it's worth posting this comment (but maybe it'll sway like-minded people).. I went to the page and my 21st century brain ignored everything a
by mrmattyboy 4y ago
Debatable whether it's worth posting this comment (but maybe it'll sway like-minded people)..
I went to the page and my 21st century brain ignored everything apart from immediately looking for swag photos and price tag...
Of course, I saw it and was blown away (I only spend £15/$25 on a t-shirt max) and in a split second ruled it out...
But a second went by and I actually realised saw donate button and then the big header about contributions to letsencrypt etc....
If I look back at the (I guess) 6 years of using them.. across maybe 60-80 personal domains across 8-10ish TLDs worth of certs... If letsencrypt hadn't been a thing, I'd have still been paying £50/domain or £150/wildcard root domain cert per year.
Realistically, for my own personal projects, they've saved me close to $10K. Ignoring the fact that I don't need to renew tens/multiple-tens of certs a year and the hassle involved with that.
I definitely think I owe this to them and will definitely be buying something and hope others in the same boat do too :)
It's sort of wild to thing of a time now without being able to get a new project up-and-running by just sticking up a DNS entry and 3 seconds later having a valid SSL cert attached :)
Edit: Bought something :D
- eastbound 4y agoThey’ve saved you even more by making the web secure. We used to type our credit card info into HTTP websites.
- beardbound 4y agoFor what it’s worth your comment changed my mind and made me re-evaluate it. I also bought a couple of things. I’ve been hosting my families websites for years and shudder to think of how much money LE has saved me between those sites and every project site I’ve used in that same time. I don’t miss buying SSL certs for every site.
- mrmattyboy 4y ago<3
- dinkleberg 4y agoThanks for posting this comment, you've encouraged me to do the same.
- mrmattyboy 4y ago<3
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y ago> I'd have still been paying £50/domain or £150/wildcard root domain cert per year. For vapourware. SSL certs should never have ever cost anything. They've always been a scam.