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It costs $100 for a 5 year SSL certificate. Why do seemingly smart internet companies let this happen?

consultutah 14y ago
Because they are new, have never run into this problem before, and are bootstrapped to the hilt. At least you know they'll never let it happen again. ;-)
- bwhalley 14y ago
  They're not bootstrapped, they're a yC/Ignition Partners funded company.
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whalesalad 14y ago
Where the hell are you buying your certs? I'd honestly love to know.
- saurik 14y ago
  I get SSL certificates from Servertastic. They are a RapidSSL reseller, whom in turn sell rebranded GeoTrust certificates. The result is that you get "the same thing" (by the end of the payment process you are filling out forms being served by GeoTrust's servers) for $13.95/yr.
- stevencorona 14y ago
  Namecheap or SoftLayer (where I host my servers) unless I need something fancy like EV or Wildcard (in which case, you're gonna have to pay).
  - imperialWicket 14y ago
    I've only had a couple situations where I needed enough subdomains to warrant the wildcard cert. $10/yr for RapidSSL through namecheap, most wildcard certs are at least 100-ish; I usually only need 5-6 subdomains and it's cheaper to just buy all the single certs at $10 each.
- j_s 14y ago
  NameCheap resells domain-validated (basically, email the webmaster) Comodo PositiveSSL for $50/5 years. http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-certificate.aspx http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl...
michaelt 14y ago
Well, it's a 1 year wildcard certificate from DigiCert, which costs $595 according to [1] - while their 3 year certificate costs $1425. That's quite a bit of cash when you're a small business - and your minimum viable product doesn't need a 5 year cert, you just have to remember to renew your cert if you're still in business after a year... [1] http://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.htm http://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.htm
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Because they are new, have never run into this problem before, and are bootstrapped to the hilt. At least you know they'll never let it happen again. ;-)

bwhalley 14y ago
They're not bootstrapped, they're a yC/Ignition Partners funded company.
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whalesalad 14y ago

Where the hell are you buying your certs? I'd honestly love to know.

saurik 14y ago
I get SSL certificates from Servertastic. They are a RapidSSL reseller, whom in turn sell rebranded GeoTrust certificates. The result is that you get "the same thing" (by the end of the payment process you are filling out forms being served by GeoTrust's servers) for $13.95/yr.
stevencorona 14y ago
Namecheap or SoftLayer (where I host my servers) unless I need something fancy like EV or Wildcard (in which case, you're gonna have to pay).
- imperialWicket 14y ago
  I've only had a couple situations where I needed enough subdomains to warrant the wildcard cert. $10/yr for RapidSSL through namecheap, most wildcard certs are at least 100-ish; I usually only need 5-6 subdomains and it's cheaper to just buy all the single certs at $10 each.
j_s 14y ago
NameCheap resells domain-validated (basically, email the webmaster) Comodo PositiveSSL for $50/5 years. http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-certificate.aspx http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl...

michaelt 14y ago

Well, it's a 1 year wildcard certificate from DigiCert, which costs $595 according to [1] - while their 3 year certificate costs $1425. That's quite a bit of cash when you're a small business - and your minimum viable product doesn't need a 5 year cert, you just have to remember to renew your cert if you're still in business after a year... [1] http://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.htm http://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates.htm

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