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Shameless plug: To avoid such embarrassing situations in future, I've made https://monitorcertificates.com/.

It's free to use right now, and sends your reminders on Slack and Email.

Your service does not actually seem to be able to monitor this kind of certificate, IMHO moving this from "shameless" to "spam".

I mean you'd think with the resources available at Facebook they would've:

1. Automated the certificate process to auto-renew at least a year before expiry.

2. Have counter-signatures

3. Have anyone at all use any sort of calendar system to just check in on it to be sure.

But I guess being one of the largest tech companies on earth doesn't mean you don't have massive oversights.

There are still chances of Human error here as it's very difficult to automate issuing new certificates (unless you're using Let's Encrypt, which they are not).

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