I use NewRelic myself. They are software agnostic and only connect to your URL to get the expiration date.

If you set up LE correctly, it should never get an alert. I haven’t been alerted since I set it up, to the point that I wonder if I set up the monitor correctly.

The only thing I wish it could do is use custom ports. I have some services running on non standard ports.

Can someone ELI5 the difference between Usenet and torrents? From a pirating standpoint anyway.

From a protocol standpoint, my understanding is that downloading from Usenet is no different than downloading from a website, eg you download the file from one server vs the data being sharded across multiple peers.