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Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

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Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

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post #5

To be clear, “Degraded Performance” means just that, not “down.” Let’s Encrypt’s issuance is mostly working fine.

I have tried many times to renew my certs and have had 0 successes throughout today. It seems to be 100% degraded to me.

That’s unexpected. Please post details on the “Help” topic of the Let’s Encrypt community forum so that folks can take a look.

Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

#14
post #6

What are the viable alternatives to LE? And in case none exists, what does it take to build one? Requirements: free, available to everyone, automation friendly, issues certificates that are actually considered trustworthy by other parties.

ZeroSSL – free 90-day certs via ACME, also has a web UI for cert management

Google Trust Services – free ACME certs, requires a Google account for registration

SSL.com Free DV SSL – offers free 90-day certs through ACME

Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

#16
post #6

What are the viable alternatives to LE? And in case none exists, what does it take to build one? Requirements: free, available to everyone, automation friendly, issues certificates that are actually considered trustworthy by other parties.

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Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

#17
post #5

To be clear, “Degraded Performance” means just that, not “down.” Let’s Encrypt’s issuance is mostly working fine.

What % of requests succeeded vs failed? How many certificates were issued during the outage vs the average? That might actually clear things up

Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

#18

Seems not ideal for an entity who seems to be pushing for shorter expiration periods all the time

isn't this the other way around ??? because shorter expiration time resulting on more issuing cert and therefore make it more prone to downtime

Re: Let's Encrypt had a higher error rate for 90 minutes today

#20

I realize this is very much not the point, but the fact that the "Active Incident" banner is green is upsetting.

We're operating normally, but with reduced redundancy. We continue to work with our upstream ISP to identify and resolve the issue.
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