Would greatly benefit from explaining why they couldn't do dns-01 challenges successfully.<p>This an issue all the way from individuals with crappy or misconfigured DNS locally to whole TLDs (fortunately no really major ones) with non-working DNS. But it's often a teachable moment, something others can learn from.
Interesting product - fly.io<p>It’s essentially a reverse proxy as a service. Sort of like Cloudflare but with what looks like a nicer API, and custom domain name SSL eg. for multi tenant apps.<p>It was a bit pricy when I plugged in how many requests we get per month on our servers, easily in 5-figure per month. Having said that, internally we built most of their selling points already.
On a side-note, ManageEngine Key Manager Plus can automate certificate management (request, acquire, deploy, track and renew) for public facing websites.<p>Video link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYelZided-E" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYelZided-E</a>
<a href="https://www.manageengine.com/key-manager/" rel="nofollow">https://www.manageengine.com/key-manager/</a><p>Disclaimer: *I work for ManageEngine
It’s a x.509 certificate, not ssl. Also, the ssl protocol has been deprecated in favour of tls.<p>I’ll let tls certificate slide but ssl certificate just triggers me too much.
Sorry a little off topic, but any idea when Let's Encrypt will (if ever) support wildcard SSL certs? We provision (<a href="https://commando.io" rel="nofollow">https://commando.io</a>) a subdomain for each of our accounts (thus thousands of subdomains) using a wildcard DNS A record. Willing to pay, as long as it is less than the $99 a year currently paying through NameCheap.
Clearalias.com is another service that provides SSL multi-tenant apps and SaaSes that want to provide secured custom domains for their customers.<p>There's only one step required by the customer which is to point their DNS to Clearalias, no API calls or extra set up by the app or the customers.