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I need to preface this by claiming I have no idea what I'm talking about, but please bare with me: The startup I perviously worked at paid around USD 2000 for
by ohstopitu 10y ago
I need to preface this by claiming I have no idea what I'm talking about, but please bare with me:
The startup I perviously worked at paid around USD 2000 for 5 wild card certs from GoDaddy.
if Let's Encrypt charged even 10% of that, it's about $40/cert. Based on your estimate of 10 million certificates issued (and assuming that 90% of the users leave because it's not free)...that's ~1 mil certificates @ $40/cert => $40 mil.
Am I calculating this wrong somehow? (or how it this possible?)
- schoen 10y agoLet's Encrypt doesn't charge anything for cert issuance; the 10% figure was someone's suggested donation based on being appreciative of cost savings. It's true that if Let's Encrypt did begin to charge $40 instead of $0 for certs, and maintained even a moderate percentage of current issuance rates, it would have revenue in the millions of dollars. (Also, Let's Encrypt doesn't issue wildcard certificates at all.)