>New certificate from Microsoft must be hand delivered to webmaster. Shipping was so expensive that it was cheaper to fly there and pick it up. Jimbo had a flight to Seattle all booked and ready to go a month in advance. Unfortunately, the jet was a 737-900, and they got grounded. Flight was cancelled. Jim's trying to get a bus ticket right now.
it would take less than 1 minutes to install a certbot cert
certbot –apache -d domain.ext -d www.domain.ext
bing bang boom done.
8kun uses Let's Encrypt
>when the server is under attack (and it always is) the scripts will still break from time to time.
Yes, that is true.
I would imagine the problem is that there is nobody available that has root permissions to run the renewal script.
The real question is why their Let's Encrypt's cert was allowed to expire when it can be set to run automatically to auto renew domains. But Jim must have his reasons.