[account42]

How exactly do they make it hard to use Let's Encrypt? The HTTP challenge just needs the A/AAAA records that your web server needs anyway and for the DNS challenge (only really needed for wildcard certs) they do seem to at least support using your own name servers (as do most registrars): https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

[ineptech]

By not integrating with it, or even having an article on how to set it up yourself. When something is effectively free, and a lot of your competitors offer it for free, and your website says you offer it for free, but you actually charge for it, that's just BS. Reminds me of those wireless providers that kept charging outrageous rates for SMS right up until the very end.