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This comment reads as if you worked with the cloud in 2009 and haven't been back since. It doesn't take a week to setup a service. In fact, you could spin up everything you need in maybe an afternoon to get you a fully-working, TLS-backed API and website. From that point forward, everything is fully managed and you don't need to deal with Let's Encrypt binaries and stdout logs, etc.

Your first paragraph is exactly what the OP of the article did who is now writing about how it failed.