Comment by estimator7292

This was true before Let's Encrypt existed, they'd buy massive 500 domain wildcard SSL certs that free users would split.

Let's Encrypt is unusable for me because they want you to install that certbot thing. I don't know what that is or what it does. I don't want some magical auto update thing. Is it so hard to just make a generate button that gives you cert.pem and pkey.pem? Cloudflare managed to do it.

Right, DoctorOW correct me; I have limited memory about the state of affairs from a decade ago. They offered free certs for a long time regardless of LE integration

Cloudflare has native integration with Let's encrypt, which makes using TLS with a CDN much easier than if you had to acquire the ACME cert and deploy it to the CDN yourself.

Granted, most CDNs these days have some form of free certicate system, but that wasn't always the case.