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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.
It costs $100 for a 5 year SSL certificate. Why do seemingly smart internet companies let this happen?
It costs $100 for a 5 year SSL certificate. Why do seemingly smart internet companies let this happen?
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
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…
I have a own calendar just for expire dates of software and certificats. My reminder is set to 2 months before the event.
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.
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. ;-)