Comment by merpkz

10 hours ago

I have also heard a negative about it being somehow "cheap" and we can "afford" a proper wildcard for our website from managers back in the day, like, few years ago. Never mind the hours wasted every year changing that certificate in every system out there and always forgetting a few.

Also a valid point from security people is that you leak your internal hostnames to certificate transparency lists once you get a cert for your "internal-service.example.com" and every bot in existence will know about it and try to poke it.

I solved these problems by just not working with people like that anymore and also getting a wildcard Let's Encrypt it certificate for every little service hosted - *.example.com and not thinking about something being on the list anymore.