> Really, Let's Encrypt has made this a no-brainer.
Sure, if you have the time and opportunity to check that the certificate renewal has worked properly every 60 days. Once you've written a cron job, of course, to do the renewal.
For someone who's primary task isn't IT that's probably not something they want to worry about or will forget about until people complain that the SSL is broken.
Probably better to throw $ to her to buy a multi-year SSL cert from a vendor.
Sure, if you have the time and opportunity to check that the certificate renewal has worked properly every 60 days. Once you've written a cron job, of course, to do the renewal.
For someone who's primary task isn't IT that's probably not something they want to worry about or will forget about until people complain that the SSL is broken.
Probably better to throw $ to her to buy a multi-year SSL cert from a vendor.