Hi all! I have a request: without looking at our current FAQ, post some things that you think are currently Frequently Asked Questions (and would fit well in a FAQ). We originally wrote our first FAQ before we launched. It was focused on a lot of questions people had back then. Now, more than 5 yea…

[image] petercooperjr: (I'm not sure how to best put it in a FAQ style, but something about how DNS authentication requires it being API-driven since a new token will be created for each renewal, and maybe how to best work around if your DNS provider doesn't provide a handy API by using a CNAME …

That certainly does a pretty good job, though perhaps there could be some more help in that paragraph on CNAME delegation about some good options of where to delegate to, like acme-dns or the like. Perhaps a big part of the FAQ (as I'm starting to envision just now) is just helping point people to …

Ooh! I just saw a website that doesn't have a cert and I think they should use LE to get one. What's the best way to tell them? My supervisor says that we should be paying a lot of money for our cert for REASONS. I think an LE cert would work just fine for our organization. How can I convince …

Will you help me? How to fix this?

My coffeemaker is an IoT device and I can't get it to work with my router. If I just add an attempt to get a certificate for it with certbot, will you help me reconfigure my network to reverse proxy everything? (This joke in honor of @rg305 .)

Now I'm getting some really crazy suggestions in my mind: Should my ACME client generate a new certificate private key for each renewal of a certificate, or should I keep using the same certificate key? How often should I rotate my ACME account key? I'm proposing these a bit tongue-in-cheek…

One thing I've found with FAQs is that often the people who need them most don't read them. I'm not sure there's a fix for that.

Several weeks ago my son asked me why, when he searches FAQs, his question never appears in any of them. I told him he just asks the wrong questions. :smirk: I've found the same thing over the years for different software. No matter what question I had about them, there was never anything remotely …

[image] webprofusion: One thing I've found with FAQs is that often the people who need them most don't read them. I'm not sure there's a fix for that. Indeed, I was just talking with a colleague about "what even is a FAQ?" One view is that it's a place to read the questions you didn't even kn…

A FAQ is also an authoritative form of search engine optimization (SEO) that hooks your questions (and answers) into the search engine's queries. Google is your main consumer here (if all goes well).

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