"Oh but we'll work out some way to semi-automate it". Ok, where is it for those of us on cheap cpanel providers who barely know what we're doing? I though this service was for us?
no. It will be automated completely. You set stuff up once and the certificate will be kept up to date.
>Ok, where is it for those of us on cheap cpanel providers who barely know what we're doing
let's encrypt support will be added into cpanel or even into the web servers powering cpanel. All you'll have to do is check a checkbox or set a configuration file entry in the style of `enable_letsencrypt=yes` and you're done.
You won't have to care when the certificate expires. At that point 3 months starts to become interesting because expiration provides a nice hard cutoff date for revocation which works independently of OCSP and CRL availablility.
there's a list of clients being developed on their forums some already have auto renewal automation done
see
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/list-of-client-implement...
for plesk https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/plesk-and-letsencrypt/42...
for Centmin Mod LEMP stack http://centminmod.com/letsencrypt-freessl.html
cpanel feature request at https://features.cpanel.net/topic/provide-support-for-lets-e... where cpanel folks are interested too