> 8 lets me refresh weekly and have a fixed day of the week to check whether there was some API 429 timeout

There’s your answer.

6 days means on a long enough enough timeframe the load will end up evenly distributed across a week.

8 days would result in things getting hammered on specific days of the week.

> 6 days means on a long enough enough timeframe the load will end up evenly distributed across a week.

people will put */5 in cron and result will be same, because that's obvious, easy and nice number.

I'd have it renew Monday and Thursday to avoid weekend outages.

bayindirh 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ACME doesn't renew certificates when there's enough time, so it'll always renew around 6 days, even if you check more aggressively.

Currently ACME sets its cron job to 12 days on 90 day certificates.

	▲	akerl_ 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which ACME client are you referring to?

nojs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought people generally run it daily? It’s a no-op if it doesn’t need renewal.

blibble 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

so now people that want humans around will now renew twice in a week instead of once?