#idea-validation Would you pay a service to manage your wildcard ssl certificate?
#idea-validation Would you pay a service to manage your wildcard ssl certificate? For example, get a ssl cert for domain name like *.example.com. Such a service would renew the cert for you, provide you the download link, and create some simple script to install cert in your server.
Unfortunately for you there is Let's Encrypt...not only free, but very easy and convenient.
Thanks for your feedback. Could I ask are you a programmer? As a programmer , Let's Encrypt cost me about few hours to setup and make it work in a container, yeah it's free, but not that easy for programmer or non-technical guys. Is 1$/m too expensive to save one or few hours for you? What do you think ? Thanks again for your feedback.
Yes, I am software engineer and Linux packager so very advanced in this. In general this is not about "the little money" it's also about not having many subscription services in general. If something can be setup in two hours, then it should be done in a classic way.
The thing is your solution would have to be similar in complexity to Let's Encrypt (install something on server) or have access to my servers to do it for me (maybe not sure how you intent this works). In the first one you compete with free Let's Encrypt and the second is a bad idea anyway.
I don't want to discourage you per se, I always welcome options. But unless Let's Encrypt change the free offering (which they might!) the game is not in your favour.
Yeah, you are totally right. Sometimes stuck in an idea like this too deep to get away. Thanks for waking me up
I wouldn't pay for this.
Letsencrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-coming-jan-2018.html) offers wildcard certificates for free, and certbot (https://certbot.eff.org/) automates all of the pain away.
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, I know that tool, but how many tech guys will know this? I spent few hours to make it work in a container. What about such service for non-programming guys ?
I think if you're not a programmer, you're not going to be managing your own ssl certificate anyway. If you use wordpress.com, squarespace.com, or any of the many many other hosted CMS-y solutions (most of the non-technical market) -- then ssl is taken care of for you automagically.
To me it seems that the only customer who would find ssl certificate management would be programmers -- who clearly already have free and good alternatives.
Realized that, even some SaaS services for programmers like netlify , github pages have built-in ssl. It's too normal for a programmer. Thanks for your feedback.
I would not pay for this, because https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable/cert-manager does all that for me.
Thanks for your feedback. First time know such addon for k8s. Do you know any standalone to manage cert ? Maybe I could setup such service with k8s and charts.