Letsencrypt Support

[mlex]

Hey folks,

 

As far as I got it, in order to gain an LetsEncrypt free certificate(installing it without SSH, manually), I'll need to update it several times a year... On their page it says there's a simple way of integrating this procedure at hosting end, so it will become more reliable and easy to use.

 

Any chances of getting this anytime soon?

[wolstech]

There actually isn't any easy way to do this right now, at least not for high-volume hosts with smaller servers like us. We've talked about making a custom cP plugin for this, but we don't have any timeframe for that (if it happens at all).

 

The problem is that we create 100s of accounts a day. The only plugin they offer themselves is a provider for WHM that would create certificates for every single account and domain on our system. That would normally not be a big problem, but they limit the service to 20 certificates a week. For reference, we've created more than twice that number today alone...and the day still has ~10 hours left. The way we're using cPanel is not normal either, so 20/week might do for regular hosts but is severely undersized for us. For perspective, cPanel's own support staff told us we had managed to host more accounts on a single physical server than anyone else using their product (10,000+ accounts, their recommended limit is ~400...)

 

Besides, not everybody uses HTTPS, and I suspect the servers (especially Charlie and Stevie) wouldn't be able to handle the load if every single domain was using HTTPS. The way it is now, only users who actually want to use it will set it up.

[Krydos]

See http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/27636-solved-lets-encrypt-support-auto-ssl/ and http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/26914-ssh-on-tommy/?p=124952

 

In order to automatically renew Let's Encrypt a custom Heliohost plugin is going to need to be written which is a considerable undertaking, but it is in the works. For now just update your Let's Encrypt certificates manually.

[mlex]

I've should search it more precisely...

 

Sorry for that.

[Krydos]

Don't worry about it. By making this post you just let us know that yet another user is interested in this feature, and thereby moving it as a higher priority.