Get an email alert before your website's SSL certificate expires

Checks all your website certificates every day and emails you when one is about to expire.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each website in the list.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Email AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsDevOps & IT Operations
Connects
Google SheetsEmail

The problem it solves

An expired SSL certificate takes your website down and scares off visitors with a security warning, often at the worst possible time. Checking each certificate manually is easy to forget until it's already a problem.

Who it fits

IT managers or small business owners who run their own websites.

How it works

  1. Runs automatically every morning
  2. Reads the list of websites to check from a spreadsheet
  3. Checks each site's SSL certificate expiration date
  4. Flags any certificate expiring soon
  5. Sends an email alert and updates the spreadsheet with the latest status
What you get

Certificate problems caught before your site goes down

Your website certificates get checked every day, and you get an email before one expires and takes your site offline.

What you get

An email alert listing certificates expiring soon, plus an updated tracking spreadsheet.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and an email account for sending alerts.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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