[gsliepen]

No, it's not. You can always switch to a different SSL provider. There are other free ones (as mentioned in other comments).

However, thinking about how to make your own setup more robust without having to manually change configuration when one SSL provider stops working is a good exercise. I wonder if you can just get your server's private key signed by multiple SSL providers, and serve multiple certificates to clients, and whether all browsers handle that correctly.

[po1nt]

If you couldn't switch, that would be a monopoly. But single point of failure is when you put all your fruit in one basket. Airplanes have redundant systems, even though you can always buy new components. But it's much harder to change them mid-flight.

[gsliepen]

Ok, but that would just be your own website having a single point of failure, not that Let's Encrypt is a single point of failure. Otherwise you could call every certificate authority a single point of failure.

[doublerabbit]

Nothing is a point of failure if you can switch but that's not really true unless you have fail-over.

If LE was to go nope right now, how fast could you move your stack from LE?

You can't use multiple SSL certificates as redundancy. You could probably create something bespoke with a Load Balancer and SSL offloading but that's just more overhead for really nothing.

[po1nt]

Just picture the massive load spikes on other SSL providers in that moment. And the fact that even those might not work, as their backends might rely on LE SSL 3rd party services for ID checking or something.