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FWIW I have been using and relying on Dehydrated to handle LetsEncrypt automation for something like 10 years, at least. I think there was one production-breaking change in that time, and to the best of my recollection, it wasn't a Dehydrated-specific issue, it was a change to the ACME protocol. I remember the resolution for that being super easy, just a matter of updating the Dehydrated client and touching a config file.

It has been one of the most reliable parts of my infrastructure and I have to think about it so rarely that I had to go dig the link out of my automation repository.

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hju22_-37mo ago

You've been using Dehydrated since its initial commit in December of 2015?

thaumaturgyOP7mo ago

I am pretty sure that this is the thread that introduced me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681851

Unfortunately, web.archive.org didn't grab an https version of my main site from around that period. My oldest server build script in my current collection does have the following note in it:

    **Get the current version of dehydrated from https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated **
    (Dehydrated was previously found at https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated)

...so I was using it back when it was under the lukas2511 account. Those tech notes however were rescued from a long-dead Phabricator installation, so I no longer have the change history for them, unless I go back and try to resurrect its database, which I think I do still have kicking around in one of my cold storage drives...

But yeah, circa 2015 - 2016 should be about right. I had been hosting stuff for clients since... phew, 2009? So LetsEncrypt was something I wanted to adopt pretty early, because back then certificate renewals were kind of annoying and often not free, but I also didn't want to load whatever the popular ACME client was at the time. Then this post popped up, and it was exactly what I had been looking for, and would have started using it soon after.

edit: my Linode account has been continuously active since October 2009, though it only has a few small legacy services on it now. I started that account specifically for hosting mail and web services for clients I had at the time. So, yeah, my memory seems accurate enough.

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