So thanks to the help on here I got certbot up and running last month. It’s come to my attention that the usage hours running on the ec2 instance on amazon has gone up about 150%.
The website hasn’t been released yet and it’s abnormal for it to have gone up so much, the only significant change was setting up the certbot certificate via manually. I havent set up any cron jobs or anything to handle it in the future as of yet either.
Any ideas on the inner workings of certbot? Is there a service running in the background for this?
certbot itself doesn’t start/run any services. It’s meant to be called through things like cron (for renewal). Packages like those of Debian are installing a cron service automatically, but this isn’t something the guys from certbot decided nor implemented (but the guys from Debian themselves).