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I host 20 sites from simple vps box with nginx. AFAIK i need an ip per domain to have ssl, unless I use something called sni, but I don't know how to set it up with nginx + let'sencrypt It's not that easy.

Of course I could just throw cloudflare in front of everything, but no thank you.

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You don't need to set up anything specifically for SNI, nginx does that out of the box. Unless you have to serve really old clients (some WinXP and android <2.3 I think?) SNI is no problem at all.

Hmm? I run multiple https sites from a single Linode box without any issues. Nginx + letsencrypt.

So you are using SNI?

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/57447/

Shows working sni with nginx and let's encrypt. You've probably done the same config error

Honestly, I don't even know. I'm not familiar with SNI.

All I know is I didn't have to do anything special to get the 2nd domain running ssl on the same box. It just worked right away as expected. I wasn't even aware that there might be complications.

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