Q: I'll just set my SSL alert to fire on the expiry date. That's enough warning?
A: No, that's far too late, and it's a surprisingly common setting. The day a certificate expires, every visitor already gets a browser security warning. By then you're firefighting, not preventing.
The myth is that an expiry alert is about the expiry day. It's actually about giving yourself time to renew, validate, and deploy, sometimes across a change-freeze or a weekend.
Recommendation: alert at 30 days, again at 14, and a final urgent page at 3 days remaining. The staggered ladder means a missed first warning still gets caught.
Follow-up: yes, monitor the whole certificate chain, not just the leaf. An expired intermediate breaks trust the same way, and auto-renewal tools sometimes miss it.
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Q: I'll just set my SSL alert to fire on the expiry date. That's enough warning?
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