On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:21:50 -0500, Mike Horvath wrote:

> I may do that. I just got an email from my web host. They want an extra
> $29.99 per year for an SSL certificate.

Yeah, I looked at the costs and the traffic I generate to my sites, and 
decided it wasn't worth it - but I have an authentication system on my 
sites, and don't want username/password info sent in the clear.  LE is a 
perfect fit for it.

And the system I use is completely scriptable, so I just have a cron job 
that will run every 90 days to update the certificates automatically (but 
troubleshooting it has been a pain - since I test with live certificates, 
I generally only test when I need to update the certs).

The cool thing is they added wildcard certs, so now it's just a single 
wildcard cert for everything.

DNS through AWS costs me $11/year plus about $0.50 per month or something 
in that ballpark.  It's weird to have a payment on that credit card (only 
thing I use it for) of < $1 per month. :)

Jim



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