[epse]

If you're talking about the "saner" service OP talks about at the end, I read that as 90 days and then you have to start paying

[winrid]

LetsEncrypt with auto renewals via certbot is free unless there's some misunderstanding here.

[fargle]

I missed this too, took three readings to de-conflate that Rachel's talking about some other unnamed scummy service, for the bulk of the writeup not certbot/LE.

[winrid]

Ah okay. I suppose you have more patience than me. :)