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The other CAs with a free tier that I'm aware of (zerossl, ssl.com, actalis, google trust, cloudflare) require you to have an account (which means you're at the
by notherhack 10mo ago
The other CAs with a free tier that I'm aware of (zerossl, ssl.com, actalis, google trust, cloudflare) require you to have an account (which means you're at their mercy), and most of them limit the number of free certs you can get to a very small number and don't offer free wildcard certs at all.
There really is no alternative to LE.
- cheeze 10mo agoAWS Certificate Manager manages this all for you via DNS validation. Granted, you're locked into their ecosystem, can't export PK, etc. so it's FAR from a perfect solution here but I've actually been pretty impressed with the product from a "I need to run my personal website and don't want to have to care about certificates" perspective. Granted, you're paying for the cert, just not directly. I agree with your statement completely though.
- eterm 10mo agoHow much does that end up costing? I'm interested to know for my own personal domain.
- zaik 10mo ago> which means you're at their mercy Let's Encrypt could easily refuse to issue a certificate for a certain domain, even if you don't have a registered account. I don't see much difference.