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2026-04-16 00:24
Stop Using Certbot. Manage SSL Certificates From Your Node.js Code.
You know the ritual. You spin up a new server, install certbot, run the command, hope it works, set up a cron job for renewal, pray it doesn't silently fail three months later at 3am, and if it does — your users wake up to a scary browser warning and you wake up to a panicked Slack message.
And that's the good scenario. The bad scenario is when you're running Node.js behind nginx just for SSL ter...