ProbeHunt

Renew your TLS certificate

Transport · about 15 min

In plain words

Your HTTPS certificate expires soon. When it does, every visitor gets a full-screen "Your connection is not private" warning.

What can go wrong

The site becomes effectively unreachable for visitors and API clients at the moment of expiry.

How to fix it

Pick the platform your site runs on. Not sure? Forward this page to whoever manages your website.

Let’s Encrypt

sudo certbot renew --dry-run   # test auto-renewal
sudo systemctl list-timers | grep certbot

Cloudflare

SSL/TLS → Edge Certificates: Universal SSL renews automatically.
If your origin uses a Cloudflare Origin CA cert, check its expiry under SSL/TLS → Origin Server.

cPanel

SSL/TLS Status → Run AutoSSL
Before you change anything: We read the expiry date from public Certificate Transparency logs, so a just-renewed certificate can take a little while to show up.

Check that it worked

Re-run the ProbeHunt check after renewal.

Re-run the free check

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