What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt • Hacker News Board

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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Post by denfromufa » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 3:41 AM UTC

pfg wrote: post #388

denfromufa wrote: post #372

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can you explain why I'm downvoted?

There are a number of client options for windows[1]. [1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#windows

seriously has anyone actually got to work any of these third-party options? Don't they all depend on IIS which is not free?

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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Post by pfg » Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 7:59 AM UTC

denfromufa wrote: post #391

pfg wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a number of client options for windows[1]. [1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/#windows

seriously has anyone actually got to work any of these third-party options? Don't they all depend on IIS which is not free?

Many of the clients above support something like certbot's webroot plugin, which is web server-agnostic and works by simply putting a verification file in your webroot and serving that to Let's Encrypt's validation server.

Also: As far as I know, IIS is included with any Windows version (definitely any version of Windows Server).

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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Post by MustardTiger » Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 11:33 AM UTC

eropple wrote: post #148

MustardTiger wrote: post #69

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>people who seriously know how to code mission critical X.590 root CA PKI infrastructure are not cheap And they also aren't working at letsencrypt.

You've exhaustively enumerated those people, have you? I know a couple folks at Let's Encrypt in passing and they are at the top of my list of folks I would want writing code for me if I needed to trust it with, if not my life, most stuff up to that point.

Ok, but how little you value your life and how little you know about secure coding isn't useful to the rest of us.

Re: What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

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Post by ryanobjc » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 6:26 PM UTC

Fogest wrote: post #335

nkassis wrote: post #210

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But you gotta admit a lot of recent grads end up leaving. I'm another Canadian who left given I was offered doubled my salary in one move.

But isn't the cost of living also higher and you have medical expenses and things? Are you actually taking home double as much, or does a lot of that extra have to go to living expenses that you wouldn't have in Canada?

The cost of living is higher. Medical expenses aren't really a thing for recent grads, and good medical insurance limits your outlay. Normally most people with solid insurance and serious health concerns will max out at a few thousand dollars a year. And for the kinds of jobs we are talking about, that isn't a big deal.

Anyways, I'm making way beyond 2x as much as I ever could have in Canada. Also I get to work on world class tech, with world class people. And when I changes jobs, I don't have to take major compromises. There are way more high quality employers in the bay area than anywhere else for technology!