<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>Regardless of what you end up using you need to have your own monitoring if you care about availability.&lt;p&gt;My own monitoring always alerts if certificate chains don&amp;#x27;t validate, HTTP-&amp;gt;HTTPS redirection is dead, or if the certificate is due to expire in less than 10 days.&lt;p&gt;The various tools for interacting with Lets Encrypt might fail sometimes, but if you have monitoring you can fix them up as required - and without monitoring you&amp;#x27;ll in trouble regardless of who you use.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>Does anyone know of a “set it and forget it” alternative to Let’s Encrypt?&lt;p&gt;I’m all for making things more secure, but they’ve broken all of my certs in the last 12 months (in different ways, at different times), and I’m sick of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let&apos;s Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/112253</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wiremaus</author><text>Same here. I had them running for a small informational website, and they took the site down for several days via surprise cert problems. I may switch to a paid provider.</text><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>Does anyone know of a “set it and forget it” alternative to Let’s Encrypt?&lt;p&gt;I’m all for making things more secure, but they’ve broken all of my certs in the last 12 months (in different ways, at different times), and I’m sick of it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Let&apos;s Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements</title><url>https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v1-v2-validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/112253</url></story>