Why aethercert exists
I built aethercert because renewing a certificate shouldn't require an enterprise budget or a folder of scripts nobody remembers writing.
“Switching a certificate should be a five-minute job – not a project with a change ticket, a vendor contract, and a prayer that nothing breaks at 2 a.m.”
Certificates are cheap to issue. Tracking them isn't.
Issuing a TLS certificate is free or nearly free these days. The real cost shows up later – knowing which certificate lives where, when each one expires, and which CA issued it. Then there's actually getting the renewed file onto the system serving traffic: a Windows Certificate Store, an NGINX box, a load balancer only one person still knows how to touch. Most organizations end up choosing between an expensive enterprise PKI platform and a pile of manual steps held together by tribal knowledge. Neither scales, and neither can be trusted to run unattended.
One system of record for every certificate, on every authority.
aethercert exists to close that gap: any certificate authority – public or your own internal CA – automated renewal, and a dashboard that shows exactly what's happening instead of a spreadsheet someone updates when they remember to. Configure a domain and a target once, and every renewal after that happens on schedule, logged, and verifiable.
Infrastructure-grade reliability, without infrastructure-grade overhead.
Something a small team can operate with full confidence, and a large one can standardize on – no per-seat enterprise pricing, no black box. Trust that's earned by showing the work, not by a sales deck. That's what I'm building aethercert to be.
Trust · Clarity · Security · Transparency · Knowledge · Integrity · Permanence · Excellence
Simon Müller
aethercert is my own project – built, maintained, and supported by me. If you want to know more about my background, the best place is LinkedIn.
Connect on LinkedInJudge it by the dashboard, not the pitch
Start free with one certificate on one server - no credit card, no sales call, and nothing to uninstall if it is not for you.
Free plan, no card required. aethercert is invite-only while it scales - leave your email and you'll hear back from us directly.