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Website TLS certificates: expiration discipline

Auto-renew usually works until it does not. A lightweight checklist so HTTPS does not expire on a holiday.

1 min readBy Michael NarehoodHosting

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Expired certificates look unprofessional and train users to ignore browser warnings.

1. Inventory public hostnames

Include www, apex, and app subdomains.

2. Confirm auto-renew path

Let’s Encrypt / host ACME jobs need working DNS and HTTP challenges.

3. Calendar a manual check

Quarterly: open the site, click the padlock, note expiry.

4. Monitor

Uptime tools that alert on certificate expiry pay for themselves once.

Hosting with Qutzl? We track this. Open a ticket if something looks off.