By Greg Nowak, 20 June, 2026 Shorter TLS Certificates Make Renewal Monitoring a Server Job Public TLS lifetimes are moving from 200 days toward 47. Manual renewal is now a reliability risk across ACME, reloads, monitoring, and rollback. Tags TLS Server Administration ACME apache Nginx
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