Comment by gavinray

4 years ago

Wow that's really shitty of all the other ones.

Will you name drop them so I can be angry at their ethics for you?

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brianpan  4 years ago

Even if my cert is about to expire, I might already know and have a plan to renew and rotate. In fact, I would think MOST large sites have a plan for this and aren't relying on a person from the internet to notice and email them.

Plus, do I need to publicly thank every person that emails and helps me?

  • remram  4 years ago

    There's never a reason to cut it as close as a few days. If you had a sensible plan, you would have enacted it weeks before so as to not get into this situation. Even letsencrypt, with its famously short-lived certificates, is supposed to renew 30 days before expiry.

    I have been bitten with this before. I had a good plan, and had actually renewed that one but hadn't reloaded nginx. That's the day I found out that uptimerobot alerts you if your site goes down, but stays willfully silent if it's technically up but using an expired or invalid certificate.