Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by justinsaccount 1064 days ago
Before LE almost no one automated SSL cert refresh. Depending on your SSL cert vendor you couldn't automate things even if you wanted to. It's not that the automation ran fine for five years, it's that you'd be lucky if the manual process last done 5 years ago was even documented.

SSLMate is about as old as LE, they both started around the same time.