No, Dan, for me certbot has NOT replaced letsencrypt.
I had letsencrypt installed and, because it is not explained anywhere, also installed certbot. Nothing got replaced and it is very well possible that some or even all of my troubles are because of having both.
The same question poses itself when it comes to upgrades. Is there an upgrade mechanism? Or a security upgrade system? Ot are these entirely left to the user, to do? And how is the user to know about upgrades and sec patches?
There are not many how-to’s, as you’ve already succeeded in making most of them obsolete.
I mean, how old is this project? It already changed it’s name by the transition to certbot and generated many clones. Very, very confusing.
And nowhere in the docs it is explained what each of these programs do. If you read the docs, you’re bound to be left with the impression that it is a “client” and a “server”. And you can’t use a client without a server, can you?
Now I hear it is not. It is a replacement, from another entity, with other documentation, which shares some of the purpose and some of the commands. But apparently, not all.
If certbot’s purpose is to replace letsencrypt, I’d expect at least a link to those docs in the menu on the letsencrypt website. Now there’s one link on the “getting started” page. Hardly prominent, or easy to find.
What I see in this thread, is people meandering in denial of the problem.
If you want to take on every website maintainer, you need docs for ordinary people, not for geeks that already know half the story.