I host many small sites on a $10/month shared server with a typical LAMP stack host. Unfortunately, SSH access is limited so I keep running into issues getting Let's Encrypt running. Has anyone else run into any issues? Not looking for step-by-step help, just wondering if I'm alone.
I have seen paid software promising to solve this [0], but I'd rather not pay to get a free certificate.
I'm one of the developers of that paid plugin. We developed it primarily for my day job (as a web host, SSL is one of the worst support burdens for us), but it's been really successful for other hosts as well.
The situation certainly sucks for shared hosting customers who do not have access to LE. However, cPanel have stated that they will be delivering the functionality as an out-of-release plugin between 11.56 and 11.58.
If you don't want to pay, I suggest taking a look at one of the dependency-free, root-less tools, such as acmetool[1]. You should be able to plug this into your crontab without any issues. Depends how limited your SSH is, though.
1. https://github.com/hlandau/acme . Great tool. Unfortunately the official Let's Encrypt client tooling is really quite poor. Python was not a good choice (way too many dependencies get pulled, esp. for such a simple ops tool, messed up situation with 2.6/2.7/3.x availability across Linux distros).
I have seen paid software promising to solve this [0], but I'd rather not pay to get a free certificate.
[0] https://letsencrypt-for-cpanel.com/