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Because you could have 50 subdomains, for which you'd need either a wildcard cert or 50 separate certs.

That might seem like a ton per week, but consider a PaaS (example-123.herokuapp.com) or a blog platform (example-diary.someblogapp.com).

Personally I'd prefer a wildcard cert there, but at organizations where certificate inventory is a requirement (where they need to track, procure, and invalidate on a per-subdomain basis) Let's Encrypt is a solid option.



Note that herokuapp.com is a public suffix, so subdomains under it have separate Let's Encrypt quotas.




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