Powering off old server: just use certbot on the new one?

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I'm self hosting a website at home and I just bought a new server to replace the old one. The new server will have the same public IP and will be running the same OS (Debian linux).

I've read some topics about moving certificates between servers but I'd rather start from scratch than copying certs and configuration. AFAIK I can just let the old certificate expire while issuing a new one, for the same domain, on the new server. So... can I just run certbot on the new server when the old one is powered off and DNS are sorted?

Thanks for helping!

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Indeed, no need to copy the existing certificate (and its private key), you can just get a new one.

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