Not everyone has enough access to their server or know how to install & use the official client in it’s current state. If you do, obviously the best choice is to install and use a cron to automate renewal. My goal with this website was to make it easy and accessible for non-technicals.
If you don’t trust your browser then you might as well never enter a password in your browser.
I added FTP for the people that don’t know how to upload files like most non technical people, of course you don’t have to use it if you know how to upload files. Where did you get the “whois protection” from? That’s nowhere on the site.
In reply to David. Please let me know how this is “insecure” if you are talking about the private key being generated by the server then as I already said I am working on moving it to the browser using the Web Cryptography API - http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
Security is ever changing and nothing is ever completely secure. I am willing to improve it as much as I can in order to provide as secure a solution as possible to help bring SSL to a lot more people, not just technicals.
Merry Christmas everyone and thanks everyone else for being more positive.