On 3/8/2019 5:51 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 


I have cpanel and a directory I use for uploading files via FTP. I'm not 
sure I am able to run a cron job on the (shared) server. Not sure how to 
find out if I am able to, too.


Mike

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