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[francislavoie]

Because Lego maintainers wouldn't budge when Caddy needed changes made to increase ACME reliability. Matt wrote his own implementation https://github.com/mholt/acmez and started using that in Caddy soon after. There's a deeper explanation here: https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic/issues/71

[hda111 → francislavoie]

Interesting. I will have to try it out. From my experience lego is not very reliable so I understand their point.

[mholt → hda111]

Yeah, lego's API and unreliability were the ultimate driving factors behind writing my own ACME stack. Actually, lego was originally commissioned for the Caddy project -- but then Caddy's needs evolved to having to support enterprises with tens-of-thousands of domains, and lego crippled under that responsibility due to diverging priorities. Lego is primarily used by Traefik now, and Caddy uses CertMagic+ACMEz to provide more robust, reliable certificate management that scales well.

I can guarantee CertMagic+ACMEz is the best cert management available in the ecosystem. It won't let you down.