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Re:Rate Limits by ajross on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:31PM (#12308642)
> LE is still useless for UGC sites with per-user subdomains

Let's Encrypt is a public service, aimed at operators of individual systems who host web content or email in a casual sense, were poorly served by the complexity of getting and maintaining a TLS cert, and who empirically were basically not doing TLS.

Your posited blog host is going to be a professional or semi-professional web admin. Just call up Comodo or whoever. There's a product for that need. Let's Encrypt is not it.

In the vernacular: cry me a river.

Re:Rate Limits by phil21 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @08:31PM (#12309624)
I had a team member explain the project vastly differently to me. Can you provide a link that LE is only for personal/casual use?

As a webhost we have offered SSL certificates to customers for ages. Unless it's free you will see very little uptake. Which eliminates the main purpose for LE to exist, from what I was told.

I also have a rather compelling use case for far more than 20 subdomain certificates a week, but there is absolutely no "market" for that use-case - it simply increases Internet security. Which was the entire stated goal of the project, I thought.

First I've heard that LE is only for personal use :)

Re:Rate Limits by X-Istence on Thursday August 18, 2016 @02:18AM (#12310709)
If you have per-user sub-domains, just get a wildcard cert, pay for it, and cover all your users all at once. Why do you need want to go through LE for that purpose?
Re:Rate Limits by Dolores12 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:05AM (#12310851)
I do completely agree. Use right tool for your job.