Show HN: Monitoria – free uptime and SSL monitoring for your website

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Hi,

My name is Robert and I'm the creator of Monitoria.

I've submitted Show HN around 2 months ago but it didn't get any traction [1].

Since then I introduced a free plan and SSL certificate monitoring.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. I'll be happy to hear any feedback.

Thank you very much!

Robert

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24768929

We had downtime once the certificate of the issuer of ours expired. Thus the SSL trust "chain" was broken an browsers no longer accepted our SSL certificate.

(Of course they annouced that via some channels, which our SSL reseller forgot to forward.)

A useful addition, or premium feature, would be to also scan the SSL certificate chain.

Thank you for the feedback. You are right, checking the whole chain is important.

I'm already partially supporting this but need to do few changes.

The intermediate certificates returned when making the request are checked. The system will use the earliest expiration time.

However, the root certificate (which is stored locally) is not checked.

I'll add the feature and update the documentation.

Thanks.

Made an update and now the expiration time of all certificates in the certificate chain is checked.

Thanks!

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