The conclusion in thread Delete Expired Certificates was to leave /etc/letsencrypt untouched but this doesn't match my requirements, so I restart this topic: after 3 years of running a proxy gateway with SSL termination I see a /etc/letsencrypt directory with ~1.4 GB in size ~330.000 files curren…

Thanks for your feedback. I now scripted the following shell script to cleanup /etc/letsencrypt/ in a configurable way: https://gist.github.com/usrflo/fc979e02504c4e3345c3e6a731c96028 certbot-cleanup.sh #!/bin/bash # Remove outdated letsencrypt CSRs, keys and certificates lesslBasePa…

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Thanks for the link @Osiris!
Good read and it led me to this thread here (a few years old) that discusses the same issue and proposed solution.

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