Chill SSL launches SSL Monitoring and Reminder service as Let's Encrypt wind down much-loved and useful service

Today marks a significant transition in the SSL certificate monitoring landscape. Let's Encrypt has officially retired their email reminder service, and ChillSSL is here to help you stay protected.

Let's Encrypt, providers of free website SSL certificates, send millions of renewal reminder emails every day.

Until today. Starting tomorrow, those reminders stop.

That leaves an estimated 600 million domain owners with two options:

1. Trust that auto-renewals won't silently fail, or
2. Find a reliable third-party tool (👋 cough) to step in and keep watch

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Introducing Chill SSL

Why SSL Monitoring Still Matters — Even With Automation

I built ChillSSL — an SSL Certificate monitoring and reminder tool — because I believe trust is great, but trust with verification is even better. In my experience, auto-renewals aren't the issue—silent failures are.

To that end, Chill SSL doesn't replace your automation. It watches and verifies them.

Automate the renewal. Monitor the automation

Chill SSL acts as a protective monitoring layer and sits above your existing SSL certificates. It will monitor expiry, misconfiguration and health, catching problems before they impact users, revenue, trust and Google rankings.

It's a clean, simple dashboard with just a bit of fancy design that takes the uncertainty out of SSL certificate management and allows you to:

✅ Know exactly when your SSL certs are due, expire, renew or fail
✅ Receive reminders in formats and schedules that suit you
✅ Monitor all your SSL Certificates domains in a single UX-forward dashboard

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Time to launch

I have to say, it's been great fun building Chill SSL, and importantly, genuinely useful too. But now it's time to get it out into the world.

Sure, there are a few rough edges, a rubbish logo, a pricing page that has been confounding me, and is anything you love building ever truly finished?

But I wanted to soft-launch it today to mark a significant day in internet history.

As of tomorrow, over 600 million domains will need SSL monitoring and reminders. This feels like the perfect time for ChillSSL to stop hiding on my MacBook. Let's Encrypt has officially retired their email reminder service, and ChillSSL is here to help you stay protected.

I'm not saying I want millions of outgoing emails or millions of customers (seriously!). But we're already testing ChillSSL against hundreds of real-world certificate checks and rapidly building for the future. So if you manage or monitor SSL certs and agree it can be a bit of a PITA, we're here to make the experience a little more... Chill!