Re:Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
by nickblah on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @07:19PM
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If you can use OpenResty (nginx+Lua), then that's exactly the approach I've taken for a plugin I've been developing recently (SNI, on-demand, and caching): https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl There's still a couple loose ends to tie up, but we've been using it on production for a few weeks now, and it's been refreshingly nice to not worry about SSL for new domains.
Regarding the 5 requests per week, I believe that's only for repeated re-issuances of the same domain. As long as you cache the certs, then this shouldn't be an issue. Registering new certificates for new domains is limited to 500 per 3 hours: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-enc...
Re:Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
by Nullabillity on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:41PM
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Wouldn't work, sadly you're limited to 5 requests per apex per week.
I'm thinking the only thing that would really fix this is an nginx module that would automatically fetch certificates for domains when they're first requested via SNI. First hit takes some time, then it's cached and refreshed once a month or something... it would effectively mean 0 configuration SSL for all new domains.