maybe i just dont know how they work. but it was my impression that a verification request is sent to the certificate authority every time a connection is attempted. in that case, the length of the certification validity would be somewhat irrelevant as the validation request would fail because Lets Encrypt was down.

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You mean like, anytime someone connects to your website, a request is sent to Let's Encrypt? No your public and private key are stored on your server when you get them.

You only reach out to them when you need to refresh your cert.

didnt know that. your

concern makes more

sense.