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Can you get a 2-year certificate now? I thought it was already gone. On the other hand, I love Let's Encrypt, especially when paired with go-acme/lego. It works flawlessly, and I don't need to worry about my certificate expiring or forgetting to renew it each year. I can always monitor my certificates too.

I think it is 13-months, at least that is the maximum I can buy here, GoGetSsl have a description and a list here: https://www.gogetssl.com/wiki/general/multi-year-subscriptio...

This seems to have started around August 2020.

So instead they will sell "subscriptions" where you get a new certificate on expiry. So technically they will still sell you multiple years, but as a subscription.

Certs longer than 398 days have been banned since sept 2020

I have not checked for a while, always went for the 1y. But it seem to no longer be the case.

The overhead of automation? It's one script that can be set to run each day - exactly the kind of thing that is really easy to do with computers.

The only difference between them is liability.

CAB rules apply to your fancy paid certs as well.