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> Ratcheting the expiration down to 47 days is an effort to force everyone to use automation, which makes no sense for small hobby sites. you make it sound lik
by GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
> Ratcheting the expiration down to 47 days is an effort to force everyone to use automation, which makes no sense for small hobby sites.
you make it sound like setting up automated renewals is an onerous process. IME it takes about the same amount of time to set up the automation according to the directions as it does to manually renew the certs with an ACME client. the only difference is you're pasting a command into a crontab/timer instead of directly into your shell to execute.
- basscomm 1y ago> you make it sound like setting up automated renewals is an onerous process The problem isn't that it's hard to set up. It's that it adds another thing that I have to monitor for failures and troubleshoot when it breaks. For a small hobby site, I might go longer than 47 days without looking at it.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agofair point. for the stakes we're talking about, i've personally found it more than reliable for a handful of hobby sites i've hosted over the years, and i don't typically monitor the renewal process for those types of things. ymmv. for me, i'll fix it if i have to, but i haven't yet :)