I’ve used a variety of certificate providers over the years, Thawte, CA-Cert, Verisign, Comodo, Startcom. Until about six months ago I was using Startcom, and had spent a fair amount of energy setting that up for my own site (this one) as well as all the other sites I manage.

Then Wo-Sign acquired Startcom, and browsers starting distrusting Startcom. I ended up buying a cert from Comodo for this site.

But then I found out about Let’s Encrypt. Not only are they free, but they have this whole ACME auto update thing worked out, using various ACME clients. I’ve been using Certbot from EFF. Continue reading Updating certificates to “Let’s Encrypt” with ACME →