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Google should offer stupid SSL certificates either for free or for $1/yr. Perhaps at least to customers of Google domains. I won't mind switching from namechea

by gesman 11y ago

Google should offer stupid SSL certificates either for free or for $1/yr. Perhaps at least to customers of Google domains. I won't mind switching from namecheap to Google domain in latter case.

mikecb 11y ago
They are a platinum sponsor of Letsencrypt, so...done?
- yeukhon 11y ago
  That doesn't mean anything other than "we like the idea, you convinced us, we have some budget, we will sponsor in some way money and human resource."
  - ultramancool 11y ago
    It also means they quite literally at least assist with offering free SSL certificates.
  - ryanlol 11y ago
    Er, isn't that how it'd work internally too?
  - mikecb 11y ago
    If you're interested in more direct support, please star my ticket[1], it's likely that the same functionality would work for the https loadbalancer as well. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12535 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
  - cyphar 11y ago
    It means they are supporting a project that provides free SSL certificates. Which more than solves great-grandparent's quip.
  - Dylan16807 11y ago
    Money and human resource are what make up a company. They give that, and they put their name behind it in support. What else could they do?
ergothus 11y ago
Getting a Google domain means giving up getting new features from Google :( (pauses to clean up bitterness)
- notatoad 11y ago
  No, it does not. Signing up for google apps and choosing to use the google apps account as your primary google user account causes you to get new features on a delayed schedule. You can get a domain through google without switching your google identity to it. You can also sign up for google apps on a non-google domain. google domains and google apps are not the same thing.
  - ergothus 11y ago
    TIL, though many people with a domain are going to want their accounts through it. That said "delayed schedule" above means 1+ years.
  - bad_user 11y ago
    On Google Apps there are features that have been deployed years ago for regular accounts and that are still not available for Google Apps customers. The one feature missing and that was painful for me were Contacts photos with a resolution higher than 96x96 pixels. On a latest generation Android with good resolution it sucks and I would have preferred if Contacts photos weren't synchronized at all. I ended up switching to a CardDAV provider and in the end I gave up on Google Apps for other reasons as well. And for the record, Google accounts had this resolution increased in 2012 ;-)
    - kamaln7 11y ago
      Hold on. Are you saying that that's why Android's Contacts keeps resizing all the photos to like 4x4px? Wow, I've tried everything I could find on Google but it never crossed my mind that it would be related to Google Apps. Thanks so much!
- Vendan 11y ago
  Note that by default, Google apps stuff is on a delayed schedule compared to the general public, but you can go into your google apps profile and change to the "Rapid Release" feature deployment, which means you get stuff as soon as the general public does.

by gesman 11y ago

Google should offer stupid SSL certificates either for free or for $1/yr. Perhaps at least to customers of Google domains. I won't mind switching from namecheap to Google domain in latter case.

mikecb 11y ago

They are a platinum sponsor of Letsencrypt, so...done?

yeukhon 11y ago
That doesn't mean anything other than "we like the idea, you convinced us, we have some budget, we will sponsor in some way money and human resource."
- ultramancool 11y ago
  It also means they quite literally at least assist with offering free SSL certificates.
- ryanlol 11y ago
  Er, isn't that how it'd work internally too?
- mikecb 11y ago
  If you're interested in more direct support, please star my ticket[1], it's likely that the same functionality would work for the https loadbalancer as well. [1] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=12535 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
- cyphar 11y ago
  It means they are supporting a project that provides free SSL certificates. Which more than solves great-grandparent's quip.
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  Money and human resource are what make up a company. They give that, and they put their name behind it in support. What else could they do?

ergothus 11y ago

Getting a Google domain means giving up getting new features from Google :( (pauses to clean up bitterness)

notatoad 11y ago
No, it does not. Signing up for google apps and choosing to use the google apps account as your primary google user account causes you to get new features on a delayed schedule. You can get a domain through google without switching your google identity to it. You can also sign up for google apps on a non-google domain. google domains and google apps are not the same thing.
- ergothus 11y ago
  TIL, though many people with a domain are going to want their accounts through it. That said "delayed schedule" above means 1+ years.
- bad_user 11y ago
  On Google Apps there are features that have been deployed years ago for regular accounts and that are still not available for Google Apps customers. The one feature missing and that was painful for me were Contacts photos with a resolution higher than 96x96 pixels. On a latest generation Android with good resolution it sucks and I would have preferred if Contacts photos weren't synchronized at all. I ended up switching to a CardDAV provider and in the end I gave up on Google Apps for other reasons as well. And for the record, Google accounts had this resolution increased in 2012 ;-)
  - kamaln7 11y ago
    Hold on. Are you saying that that's why Android's Contacts keeps resizing all the photos to like 4x4px? Wow, I've tried everything I could find on Google but it never crossed my mind that it would be related to Google Apps. Thanks so much!
Vendan 11y ago
Note that by default, Google apps stuff is on a delayed schedule compared to the general public, but you can go into your google apps profile and change to the "Rapid Release" feature deployment, which means you get stuff as soon as the general public does.