Hey everyone,
When reading the subject you might think "Not another Sectigo AutoSSL post" and roll your eyes but please bear with me because I'm trying to understand the mechanics behind cPanel's Let's Encrypt implementation and figure out a plan.
I won't repeat what everyone has been posting here for past 2 years or so, that Sectigo's SSLs aren't being issued on time, that end users get affected by this problem on a regular basis or that support costs are increased because of this and I'll get straight to the point (
@cPRex).
On a non-cPanel Let's Encrypt implementation, whenever you set up Let's Encrypt, you'll share an email address that receives a notification whenever the SSL certificate expires. The email received when the SSL is 20 days from expiration is something along these lines:
"Let's Encrypt certificate expiration notice for domain "amazing.domain.com"
and it comes from the Let's Encrypt Expiry Bot <[email protected]>
I'm curious how does this work in the cPanel's implementation and if cPanel shares the email address of each customer with Let's Encrypt in order to receive these notifications or if Let's Encrypt receives any kind of personal information shared with them during this process. I've been looking in the documentation, in the code but it's still not clear to me how this works. Is the server's contact address shared with Let's Encrypt?
I really want to switch from Sectigo to Let's Encrypt for everything because I'm fed up with the hourly/daily/weekly/monthly problems they have but first I'd like to know how this works and make sure that end user information isn't shared with a third party without consent.
Thanks,
Andrew
When reading the subject you might think "Not another Sectigo AutoSSL post" and roll your eyes but please bear with me because I'm trying to understand the mechanics behind cPanel's Let's Encrypt implementation and figure out a plan.
I won't repeat what everyone has been posting here for past 2 years or so, that Sectigo's SSLs aren't being issued on time, that end users get affected by this problem on a regular basis or that support costs are increased because of this and I'll get straight to the point (
@cPRex).On a non-cPanel Let's Encrypt implementation, whenever you set up Let's Encrypt, you'll share an email address that receives a notification whenever the SSL certificate expires. The email received when the SSL is 20 days from expiration is something along these lines:
"Let's Encrypt certificate expiration notice for domain "amazing.domain.com"
and it comes from the Let's Encrypt Expiry Bot <[email protected]>
I'm curious how does this work in the cPanel's implementation and if cPanel shares the email address of each customer with Let's Encrypt in order to receive these notifications or if Let's Encrypt receives any kind of personal information shared with them during this process. I've been looking in the documentation, in the code but it's still not clear to me how this works. Is the server's contact address shared with Let's Encrypt?
I really want to switch from Sectigo to Let's Encrypt for everything because I'm fed up with the hourly/daily/weekly/monthly problems they have but first I'd like to know how this works and make sure that end user information isn't shared with a third party without consent.
Thanks,
Andrew
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