The new Irreal SSL certificate is (finally) activated. Despite appearances, I’ve been dealing with this since last Friday when I discovered the old certificate had expired. Of course, I got no notification of a pending expiry, just a browser exception when I tried to access the site.
I renewed the certificate immediately but nothing happened. I thought maybe the hosting minions didn’t work on the weekend so I waited until Monday before querying my provider. The process exactly replicated what happened last year but, of course, I’d forgotten the details and had to rediscover them again this year. In any event, the rep I talked to was very helpful and got things taken care of forthwith.
Luciano Passuello told me there’s a better way: I should be using Let’s Encrypt. Perhaps I’ll try that. I don’t really mind paying the nominal renewal fee, I just want the process to be automatic so I don’t have to worry about it and Irreal readers don’t get errors when they try to read my bloviations profound thoughts. In the mean time, I’ve documented the process in my Journal so that whatever course I choose, I’ll be able to get the certificate renewed before the next ice age.
Now back to our normally scheduled bloviations.