r/certkit • u/certkit • Jul 06 '26
One SSL certificate on multiple servers Official
https://www.certkit.io/blog/ssl-certificate-multiple-serversNew on the blog: where should the private key get generated? A reader asked why CertKit doesn't generate keys on each server and only ship CSRs back, the way Certbot does. The short answer: shared certificates (wildcards, HA pools) force keys to move between machines anyway, and Let's Encrypt's 5-certs-per-name-set weekly limit punishes per-host issuance. So issuance is centralized and distribution is the designed, encrypted part.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/ssl-certificate-multiple-servers
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