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Stackify created this exact thing after the last time this happened with MS Azure about 2 months ago. It's called certalert.me (http://certalert.me) and is a free service.

It's not a huge business, but it was almost trivial to setup with all the advanced monitoring & diagnostics that stackify typically does anyway.

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Very useful. It's not a super hard problem to solve, but I did think it provided enough value that companies would be willing to pay for it. SSL is used on the most important pieces of a business' infrastructure, I thought it'd be a simple sell.

I also can't tell if certalert.me checks for hostname mismatches. That was another part of my service, because a misconfiguration is just as fatal as an expired certificate.

Out of curiosity.. how much money were you trying to charge for the service?

I think $5 for 5 sites, $10 for 15 and $20 for 50.

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