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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Website Certs Will Soon Last Only 47 Days
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:37:38 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:27:07 +0100, Richmond wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> 
>> The revenue-grab reason may backfire. For most purposes, a free cert
>> service like Let’s Encrypt is quite sufficient, and it’s easy enough to
>> set your system to run a cron task (or systemd timer) to auto-renew.
>> This already happens by default on a Debian installation, for example.
> 
> What about the increased load on the servers of all the extra renewals?

With Let’s Encrypt, everything’s automated at their end, too.