JJJ,
I *think* I see your point. If it was my personal site, I may try this route.
My response is because I'm on the other side of the fence in many ways.

I am responsible for hundreds of sites on various servers and I rest much better at night knowing the SSLs we use are backed. Like I said we plan to spend a few grand a year to secure our sites using other sources.

Using LetsEncrypt means I'd have to allow them (LetsEncrypt) to run some processes/updates that access our servers every 3 months and update SSLs (they are only good for 3 months, not a couple years) .. plus I can't look at what they are actually doing.
So I have to make this decision on a different level.

If my personal hosting provider allowed it, I'd probably use this service while I could.
But like I said I'm on the other side of the fence, deciding whether to allow a free 3rd party service to access/change our servers; that makes me nervous ..

On the flip side I think PGMusic could secure both the forum and the main site (legitimately with a warranty) for about $120/yr, so it's pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things for a company like PGMusic, which is what the original thread was about.


Last edited by rharv; 11/02/18 02:54 PM.
Make your sound your own!
.. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome