Gregory's ServerNaysayers: "Scaling up free, automated TLS issuance is impossible."
Let's Encrypt:
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@letsencrypt Amazing! Alt-text: a graph showing consistent growth: 0.5m certificates a day in 2018, 1.25ish m certificates a day in 2020, 2.5m certificates a day in 2022, and 3.5m a day certificates today. @letsencrypt How much does it cost to keep running? I imagine (or at least hope) you have many supporters in whose best interest it is to keep you healthy. @letsencrypt Fascinating post here! It's remarkably affordable. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/what-it-costs-to-run-lets-encrypt/82334/7 @letsencrypt always been a believer in Let's Encrypt since day 0: https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/04/12/lets-encrypt-the-road-towards-a-better-web/ I thought existing CAs would have reacted negatively to you back in the days, but it's nice to see that this didn't happen, and most of the world smoothly adopted Let's Encrypt certificates without blinking. @letsencrypt Hmmm - 3.5M/day and most people are on a 90-day renewal cycle so that’s ~315M sites that are using Let’s Encrypt. Wow. (That’s close to 1/3 of a billion) Hat’s off to the team. Also: Validating and generating 3.5M certificates per day!!! |
@letsencrypt I’m going to admit, i was very skeptical in the early days. LE proved me and the nay sayers wrong. Very nice job!