<story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for a year: $10.&lt;p&gt;SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for two years: $20.&lt;p&gt;Automated SSL certificate generation and deployment via LetsEncrypt with zero human intervention and more importantly zero human intervention to renew it going forward - &lt;i&gt;priceless&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the real value for me. At $10&amp;#x2F;cert, that&amp;#x27;s not even a rounding error. But manually generating a new CSR, uploading it via crappy web form, waiting a random amount of time, proving domain ownership by responding to an email (sent in plaintext), waiting a different random amount of time, downloading the new cert (again usually sent via plaintext email), and finally copying it over the old cert and reloading the SSL conf ... now that costs some serious time and time &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; money.</text></comment>
<story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jagermo</author><text>I think they nail their point with &amp;quot;it illustrates the strong demand for our services.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Letsencrypt is cheap (free) and easy to use.&lt;p&gt;Even people with not a lot experience can secure their sites and apps, and it just works. Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that&amp;#x27;s worth the price and the excellent documentation.&lt;p&gt;Before letsencrypt I always wanted to secure my blog with https but never got around to it or it just looked super complicated and error prone.&lt;p&gt;Then, my provider built its own tool for LE and its just so easy to implement.</text></comment>