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In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free "wildcard" certificates to enable secure HTTP connections for entire domains. Today, Let's Encrypt took that promised service live, in addition to a new version of the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, an interface that can be used by a variety of client software packages to automate verification of certificate requests.
[....]Many hosting providers already support the registration of Let's Encrypt certificates to varying degrees. But Let's Encrypt's free certificate offering hasn't been snapped up by some larger hosting providers—such as GoDaddy—who also sell SSL certificates to their customers.
(Score: 2) by lentilla on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:44PM
It's not that it's too difficult to write a script, it's just that it's so very easy to get wrong.
With cronjobs (and their ilk) there are so many failure modes to consider, and each further test you incorporate needs to be validated in its own right and adds another potential point of failure. Having an automated process isn't like having a personal assistant who'll pipe and and say "hey, boss, I couldn't renew our certificate this week" and has enough smarts to call you on the telephone if you don't reply to an email.
Like you said, it's not difficult, but writing cronjobs is an exercise in abundant caution.