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Recommend webroot over standalone

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My reading of our [certonly instructions](https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-other) is we push people towards standalone over webroot. I think people should prefer webroot over standalone if they're running a web server for a number of reasons:

1. No downtime
2. No dealing with pre and post hooks to start and stop your server at renewal
3. Webroot is much more popular with our users. See https://gist.github.com/bmw/0ef8f41d6dc70ec76d6545b9af3a9c78.

I think standalone should be preferred for people not running a webserver, but if you already have one, I think we should recommend webroot.

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