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This will be a huge pain for the small business websites I administer, which really don't need SSL to begin with except to please Google.
If you're truly unaware of why TLS is necessary or how to automate the process then you should probably retire.
Archaic attitudes like yours are precisely why these restrictions are necessary.
Exactly. Setting up Let's Encrypt is really easy, and once it's set up, you don't have to think about it.
I did it for self-hosted stuff, and it's trivial. You can even do DNS challenge auth instead of HTTP and you don't need to have port 80 open at all, but you do need a login token for your DNS host for the script.
The first one will probably take an hour or two if it's your first time, and after that, it's maybe 5 min per site.
That’s what I thought. And now I need to figure out how to update it for 47 day cycles.
I have mine check daily, which is the default and is recommended. It only actually updates when it's close to renewal, so I never need to care how short the renewal period is.