Having spent the better part of the last 20 years in IT, dealing with SSL Certificates has been a constant thorn in my side. Having to pay a Certificate Authority for the "privledge" of having an SSL cert issued from $100-300 always felt like a scam.

Let's Encrypt, along with the Electronic Freedom Foundation partnered to make certbot. I just had my first experience this evening in using certbot on an Ubuntu 20 LTS server of securing a website using certbot.

If you're a Linode customer, I highly recommend this guide which I found to be wonderfully written and well documented. Sometimes we can have nice things.