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Derek Caelin @Argus

Welp I wanted to open port 80 on my Internet connection so I could get a let's encrypt certificate on my server but they want another $10 per month for the privilege. What are my alternatives?

@Argus Do they block port 80 on their end or something?

@neekz0r
Ayup. It's a bit frustrating. ☹️

@Argus Silly buggers.

I'd do a micro AWS instance and set up an openvpn between the two, just out of sheer spite.

@Argus Can you use DNS verification? You can manually add a TXT entry to do it initially, and run a script to do it automatically (assuming you can modify your DNS records programmatically).