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$5/month is $60/year, which is ridiculous. I maintain 5 websites hosted on 5 different domains (blog in English, blog in native language and 3 project websites

$5/month is $60/year, which is ridiculous. I maintain 5 websites hosted on 5 different domains (blog in English, blog in native language and 3 project websites). The cost of 5 certificates would be $300 per year, or $25 per month. Right now I'm paying $0 for the certificates of those 5 domains, thanks to Lets Encrypt. I've been hosting them myself on a Digital Ocean VPS, with really low maintenance, since the machine is updating itself and the websites get built and deployed via Travis. Now I'm moving them to GitHub Pages and my hosting cost will also be zero.

manigandham 9y ago
The certificates are already free, Cloudflare offered them long before LetsEncrypt. You seem to want a dedicated certificate which is what costs money, likely because of their scale and existing integrations. There is no improved security with a dedicated certificate. You can also host on github pages while using Cloudflare for the custom domain, which is already the most common setup on github for several years now.
- bad_user 9y ago
  If there's nothing wrong with those shared certificates, then CloudFlare wouldn't offer "custom certificates" as a $5/month upgrade. > You can also host on github pages while using Cloudflare for the custom domain, which is already the most common setup on github for several years now. Yes, because GitHub Pages was not offering HTTPS for custom domains. Now they do, so that need is gone.
  - manigandham 9y ago
    Yes, because people want more, like having multiple levels of subdomains as the free one only supports a single level. Security is absolutely not an issue with a shared certificate and Cloudflare wouldn't get far as a company if they had an insecure product. Why don't you actually explain what you think is so problematic about sharing a cert?

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$5/month is $60/year, which is ridiculous. I maintain 5 websites hosted on 5 different domains (blog in English, blog in native language and 3 project websites

by bad_user 9y ago

manigandham 9y ago
The certificates are already free, Cloudflare offered them long before LetsEncrypt. You seem to want a dedicated certificate which is what costs money, likely because of their scale and existing integrations. There is no improved security with a dedicated certificate. You can also host on github pages while using Cloudflare for the custom domain, which is already the most common setup on github for several years now.
- bad_user 9y ago
  If there's nothing wrong with those shared certificates, then CloudFlare wouldn't offer "custom certificates" as a $5/month upgrade. > You can also host on github pages while using Cloudflare for the custom domain, which is already the most common setup on github for several years now. Yes, because GitHub Pages was not offering HTTPS for custom domains. Now they do, so that need is gone.
  - manigandham 9y ago
    Yes, because people want more, like having multiple levels of subdomains as the free one only supports a single level. Security is absolutely not an issue with a shared certificate and Cloudflare wouldn't get far as a company if they had an insecure product. Why don't you actually explain what you think is so problematic about sharing a cert?