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Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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Now, imagine the plight of all their customers who had built their apps based on their APIs. Hopefully, this is a very good lesson for all.

Indeed... we just finished our app building on Parse, but this and last week make me think hard about whether or not it was a good decision to be dependent on their infrastructure.

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Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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It costs $100 for a 5 year SSL certificate. Why do seemingly smart internet companies let this happen?

Because they are new, have never run into this problem before, and are bootstrapped to the hilt. At least you know they'll never let it happen again. ;-)

Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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Do yourself a favor and run this nightly: http://prefetch.net/code/ssl-cert-check

A simple loop over your certs will solve so many problems:

  cd ssl/certs; for pem in *.pem; do ssl-cert-check -a -x 15 -e admin@yourdomain.com -q -c $pem; done
[imagine a grumpy "silly companies with millions of dollars in funding, no actual processes, and too little systems knowledge" rant here. it's like a racecar driver who's team lets him run out of petrol every two laps. this is basic stuff, kiddies.]

Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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It's an important reminder that most startups are run by a handful of people who are normal, fallible human beings. They generally don't have access to the infrastructure and manpower required to be on the ball and maintain near 100% uptime of their services. I think the important information to be gleaned about a company is how they deal with problems like this (not necessarily the fact that they encountered the pro…

This sounds true, but there is always something called calendar for important things which will expire.

I have a own calendar just for expire dates of software and certificats. My reminder is set to 2 months before the event.

Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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This is why I think its always good to build your apps in the 'Good old way', instead of relying on a third party like Parse. It becomes a bottle-neck in situations like these, where in you are kind of stuck - Either, you will have to re-write your code from scratch, or wait for them to fix it, with a lot of uncertainty.

Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now, imagine the plight of all their customers who had built their apps based on their APIs. Hopefully, this is a very good lesson for all.

Indeed... we just finished our app building on Parse, but this and last week make me think hard about whether or not it was a good decision to be dependent on their infrastructure.

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Re: Parse is down due to SSL certificate expiry

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It costs $100 for a 5 year SSL certificate. Why do seemingly smart internet companies let this happen?

Because they are new, have never run into this problem before, and are bootstrapped to the hilt. At least you know they'll never let it happen again. ;-)

They're not bootstrapped, they're a yC/Ignition Partners funded company.
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