Just finished a 3 hr course on setting up http
S. It used
Lets
Encrypt to create the Certificates. Unfortunately, they were assuming you would also use
Digital Ocean to serve the web site. That made installing lots of shell scripts easy. Especially nice was being able to set up a cron job that ran a shell script once a month to renew certificates. While I can set up a cron job at
Hostgator (already have two running there), I'm not able to install shell scripts there which is what the cron job would use to contact
LE.
I'm considering jumping out of the
H 'boat' anyway, so I may need to investigate other places that might allow the use of shell scripts without having to pay for a dedicated server. May not be many around at reasonable prices. It is probably cheaper to just set a reminder to contact
LE every 28 days and continue to hope for he best at
HG.