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by moonlighter 15y ago
SSL Certs:
I got all my SSL certs from http://www.startssl.com/ http://www.startssl.com/
They offer FREE SSL certs (just requires a simple email verification). Name-verified SSL certs cost $59 for 2 years, EV certs go for $199 for 2 years. I'm very happy with their service.
DNS:
Like you, I switched to Amazon Route 53. Now that it's available in the Web Management Console, it's a no-brainer, especially if you use other AWS services.
Registrar: I finally got my ass in motion and just bulk-moved all my domains to Namecheap. I wanted to do that for quite a while, and their SOPA support was the final nail in the coffin.
- dangrossman 15y agoMy only problem with Route 53 is the cost. Just about any web host offers their own DNS servers as a free service. I can fully manage zone records at SoftLayer or Linode with unlimited queries at no extra cost. 10 million monthly queries on 20 domains would cost me $15/month at Amazon. It'd only be $5 per month at DNSMadeEasy, a company with a far longer record of reliable DNS service than Amazon.
- burgerbrain 15y agoThe advantage with Route 53 is really when you are already using AWS stuff. At that point sure it costs a bit more (but still less than the amount of change that I lose in my sofa in the same period of time), but it's the same place as everything else. Same bill and stuff.
- moonlighter 15y agoExactly. Using just AWS Route 53 'standalone' probably doesn't make much sense, but when used in combination with EC2 and their Elastic Load Balancer it starts to make a lot of sense. And the fact that you can use their APIs to make programmatic changes (say quickly change a A or CNAME record to point elsewhere) is fantastic.