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Let's Encrypt was the reason I moved 8 websites to self-hosted nginx servers, because my old hoster wanted 10 Euros a month (!) per SSL certificate, despite charging a lot for that slow apache webspace already.

Even ignoring the money moving away from there was worth it. There is so much more control over my software on my own instances. I can do actual backups for free. Of course it is more work and needs more attention, but not a lot more




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