You're comparing engineer time to the wildcard cert transaction price. You're neglecting to include the time for dealing with the wildcard cert (including manually remembering to renew that).
With process automation, you (or better: a collaboratively supported tool) gets progressively better at nailing renewals.
JoshTriplett's "renew every 30 days, 60 days to fix the problem" approach strikes me as inspired.
You're comparing engineer time to the wildcard cert transaction price. You're neglecting to include the time for dealing with the wildcard cert (including manually remembering to renew that).
With process automation, you (or better: a collaboratively supported tool) gets progressively better at nailing renewals.
JoshTriplett's "renew every 30 days, 60 days to fix the problem" approach strikes me as inspired.