My website certificate (Let’s encrypt) expires in 1 month. Do I need to do something or does Webflow renews it automatically? This is critical for a website in production, so I need to be sure about the renewal process.
If you are not using a Custom SSL Certificate then Webflow will handle it.
SSL comes with the Webflow hosting, so no need to worry there.
Just to chime in here, we noticed that the certificates for our website were close to expiry too,.
What we’ve noticed from historical renewals (See crt.sh) is that WebFlow tends to renews certificates around 12 days before expiry.
We asked WebFlow for some clarification and this is what they told us:
SSL certificates for Webflow sites renew automatically, and do not require any manual effort from your team. The SSL renewal process is automated and Let’s Encrypt will attempt to renew and validate your new certificate 4-10 days before it is due to expire.
And one more response after a second follow up:
Thanks for getting back to me. Here are some additional details regarding SSL certificate renewal on Webflow:
Webflow uses Let’s Encrypt for SSL certificates, which are automatically renewed 4-10 days before expiration. As long as your DNS records point to Webflow and your site is published, the renewal process is automatic. If automatic renewal fails, Let’s Encrypt will retry the renewal process. Ensure your DNS settings are correct to avoid issues.
We hope this helps you configure your monitoring systems appropriately. If you have any further questions or experiencing issues with their SSL certificate renewal, please let us know.
We asked them to publish this information publicly in the documentation so that others can also see it. From our prospective we don’t feel confident if a certificate is renewed so close to the expiration date. We will configure our monitors for an expiration window of 7 days (So it matches our historical records and close to their provided renewal period), if that fails we would consider the certificate renewal process to have potential issues and will start actively reaching out to support for a second opinion to avoid downtimes.