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0 pointsgiancarlostoro6y ago0 comments

To be reasonably fair Lets Encrypt makes it easy. I even have a $5 a year shared hosting account that gives me Lets Encrypt SSL certs through cpanel. I can't imagine this feature is unique only to this one random shared hosting provider.

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fishtacos6y ago

Your $5 instance with cPanel management isn't really quite the same as someone manually managing 100 servers hosting these services on disparate configurations and environments. In other words, what your tooling of choice automates in a specific situation doesn't necessarily apply to any one else's usage, and scalability-wise, would be even more detached.

giancarlostoroOP6y ago

Certbot works with multiple configurations and servers / Operating Systems:

https://certbot.eff.org/

I wouldn't be surprised if that's how he's managing 100 servers, or something similar.

UI_at_80x246y ago

Yes, Certbot.

I suppose I could have made that known in my post.

rumanator6y ago

> Your $5 instance with cPanel management isn't really quite the same as someone manually managing 100 servers hosting these services on disparate configurations and environments.

Actually, it is. Some reverse proxies such as Traefik handle TLS certs automatically. You practically need to explicitly not want to do it.

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