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Todd Gardner

CEO of TrackJS, Request Metrics, and CertKit; web performance and JavaScript error tracking expert; Speaker on RunAs Radio discussing SSL certificate changes and automation.

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PODCASTS

Jun 17, 2026

47 Day Certificates with Todd Gardner

Jun 17 · 37m

Richard CampbellHOST

9:03

But that's not what we're talking about here, right?

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:05

Well, so that's like the simple version, right? Sure.

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:07

Like phase one, you're like, oh, crap, I got to do this.

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:09

And I have a server that I can run certbot on, on a daily schedule, and it can renew a cert, and I can either open up port 80 onto the internet so it can validate itself, or I put some DNS credentials on it, and it can do a thing.

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:24

And that's fine.

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:25

But then the next step is, all right, but I also have a wildcard that we use for this thing.

Todd GardnerGUEST

9:30

And so now you can't use that port 80 validation.

12 MINS LATER

Richard CampbellHOST

21:51

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