title: Jun 19 2018 - 09:55:17 PM
date: 2018-06-19 21:55:17
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I find Letsencrypt even easier than doing registrar SSL. The certbot command takes care of everything, adjusting the server conf, the challenge and all. All I needed was to just paste a line in the crontab and I was done.