Any chance LE can make some official statement regarding their operating budget/burn? My strong preference would be to use them but I can't recommend transitioning to someone trying to make up single months of Opex by begging for donations.
The bulk of our support comes from corporate sponsorship, another component is grants, and the third is individual donations. Individual donations are likely always going to be our smallest source of revenue but it's still an important source to develop.
We'll be around. Go ahead with your rollout, I hope it goes smoothly and that it inspires you to contribute back what you can.
And thats how they get 0.50$ every month(it is a small private, non profit site, otherwise it would be more).
It costs $3m/year to run it (someone already posted this link).
Take a look at the sponsor cost: https://letsencrypt.org/become-a-sponsor/
And their sponsors: https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
They already have at least $2.4m from the 10 platinum and gold sponsors. And at least $270k from the 27 silver sponsors. That's the minimum total, and we're already close to the $3m.
Plus it's part of ISRG, which is backed by Akamai, Cisco, Mozilla, EFF, and a few others.
It sounds very unlikely they'll fail to raise the $3m they need any time soon. I think they'll need some kind of other event to occur first before that happens -- like a security breach, or getting removed from the browsers.
Sep 20, 2016
https://letsencrypt.org/2016/09/20/what-it-costs-to-run-lets...