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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by tass on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:59AM (#19824727)
90 days is 4 times a year. 60 is 6 times, 50% more expensive when you’re paying someone to perform the task.
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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by n42 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:17AM (#19824768)
I had the same thought, but I still find that absurd. Say they host 500,000 websites with HTTPS. 1,000,000 renewals they save spread across the year, roughly 2 renewals a minute. That is pennies. A t2.medium could handle that type of load increase
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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by albru123 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:32AM (#19824806)
A bit OT, but what's up with this usage of Amazon EC2 tiers as a unit of computational power?
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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by rickycook on Saturday May 04, 2019 @03:58AM (#19825079)
i think it’s a combined “fixed cost” rather than just computational power... like you could do it with x, thus it should cost at most y

similar to saying that you could do it with a raspberry pi

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Re:All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate... by rocqua on Saturday May 04, 2019 @03:35AM (#19825023)
It is a clearly priced unit of computational power maybe?
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