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A comment on Show HN: Never have an SSL certificate expire again.

Re:Show HN: Never have an SSL certificate expire again by palijer on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:07PM (#30262943)
Is DataDog actually a customer you have a relationship with, or are you just checking their public certs? Would be interesting as they have this feature offered as a synthetic, but it is a good idea not to monitor yourself with your own tools.

Speaking of which, hosting your own status page is a bold decision that has burned many folks in the past. https://status.haveibeenexpired.com/

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Re:Show HN: Never have an SSL certificate expire again by adrukh on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @02:11PM (#30262999)
The 'companies we monitor' are just that - domains that I added to my own user in this app. Yes, it can appear shady, as if I was trying to hint that these juggernauts are my clients. They are not :) But hey, public servers are public, anyone can monitor them, right?

Re the statuspage - that's just a CNAME record, I'm a proud user of updown.io (which, btw, also offer SSL expiration checks for hosts they monitor!)

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