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I won't miss them. For many years their certificate registration process was extremely confusing and tedious, but they conveniently charged a lot of money to re
by nickjj 9y ago
I won't miss them. For many years their certificate registration process was extremely confusing and tedious, but they conveniently charged a lot of money to revoke a certificate (read: it was cheaper to buy a new certificate from someone else like SSLMate for less money than it was to revoke a free certificate with StartSSL).
I once contacted their support and was barraged with unprovoked aggressiveness. Things like asking an innocent question with no snarkiness and getting a response like "Next time you should read the page :)".
Nowadays I use Let's Encrypt and I'm really happy with it. I haven't even thought about an SSL certificate in about a year and all of my sites have auto renewing certificates for free.
If anyone is curious how to set all of that and just want to see how all of the pieces of hosting a secure site come together (from hosting, domain purchasing and automated SSL integration with Let's Encrypt) then you can check out a course I put together that demonstrates everything at https://httpswithletsencrypt.com/ https://httpswithletsencrypt.com/.