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by janoc 1220 days ago
If you don't automate, don't document and don't check that it is actually working your process from the get-go it is only your own fault, especially when working on industrial scale like this.

Rotating the certificates constantly works for personal websites but it is not ideal in places where one can't easily update things - like behind corporate firewalls or where corporate processes permit updating/replacing things only in fixed cycles, which are often much longer than 90 days.

Don't remember the Let's Encrypt root certificate expiring fiasco from year ago? Granted, that wasn't really Let's Encrypt's fault but it shows well that these things can be a tad more complicated than just running a script every 90 days.