LetsEncrypt is pretty awesome.  Certbot works flawlessly as long as you
don't fiddle around changing things on it.

I use Xymon to monitor systems but whatever you're using otherwise, just
send an alert if the cert is going to expire in <31 days.

Josh Luthman
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 6:43 PM Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote:

> On 2/21/20 12:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> > I don't have experience with letsencrypt but a webserver software mailing
> > list I'm on has constant traffic about problems with certs not
> renewing.  It
> > may be specific to that software, but my gut tells me if this is
> something
> > mission critical and you don't want to monitor it for problems, just pay
> a
> > regular cert authority.  It's not a trivial amount of money, but not
> > Bloomberg money either.  I have too many things demanding my time already
> > without having to babysit website certs.
>
>
> I've converted 100% of my certs to use Let's Encrypt. As long as your
> automated renewals are working you're golden. That's the catch though,
> LE certs are only good for 90 days, so you absolutely can't be brain
> dead about making sure automated renewals work. I use the default
> certbot client but there are many other clients.
>
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