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1. You don't have to monitor your cronjobs. They'll send you an email when they produce output.

2. Let's Encrypt will send you an email if your certificate is going to expire in a month. This will normally never happen, since it is continuously renewed.

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> 1. You don't have to monitor your cronjobs. They'll send you an email when they produce output.

You now have to configure e-mail on your small server to actually work (and not get immediately eaten by spam filters of your personal e-mail provider).

The email doesn't come from your server, it comes from Lets Encrypt.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/expiration-emails/

Ah, ok. I read "they" as "cron jobs".

Why are you arguing against basic server administration if you're, y'know, a server admin?

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