I don't see the value in paying someone and then trusting them with something (as you say) important to my business when they have no track record. For my pers

I don't see the value in paying someone and then trusting them with something (as you say) important to my business when they have no track record. For my personal set of servers (some 25-30, with ~50 SSL certs), I have Nagios for monitoring them plus calendar alerts, SMS alerts and sane cycling (everything expires in the same month). My employer is an intermediary CA, they can issue their own certs but I've worked with people who use Markmonitor. As part of buying your cert through them is they worry about making sure your domains stay protected. They'll call you, text you and even mail you reminders. And they have a proven track record dealing with companies that are collective worth trillions.