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Ask HN: What SSL certificate provider are you using and why?
I bought a certificate from Digicert last year which is approaching expiration. In the past few months, I've received cold sales calls from a number of other providers claiming to offer the same service level at much cheaper rates.
What are the main factors that must be considered when selecting an SSL certificate provider? Who do you use, and why?
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- glazskunrukitis 13y agohttp://getssl.me http://getssl.me is quite awesome if you ask me
- rabidonrails 13y agoI'll second this. http://getssl.me http://getssl.me worked well for us too.
- xenophonf 13y agoStartSSL.com. Free certs for non-commercial use. Something like $60 per year for as many commercial-use certs as you want.
- xenophonf 13y agoAlso, GoDaddy will never, ever get another dime from me or any of my customers/clients.
- lumens 13y agoWhat do you get in exchange for the premium prices that Digicert and Verisign charge?
- veeti 13y agoInteresting. Do other merchants have similar "X dollars for infinite certificates" plans?
- xenophonf 13y agoI don't know because I haven't looked. Also, I think it is unlimited certs per verified identity or something like that, and it's the verification process that costs the $60. So one top-level domain is one verified ID, a second TLD would be another, and so on. Now for me, with all of my web sites using SSL, this is very cost-effective. I can also take advantage of the fact that my private networks use real TLDs (registered but with no public DNS), letting me use StartSSL instead of running my own internal CA (for which I lack the staff).
- michaelmior 13y agoNamecheap. Because they're cheap. Never had any issues so far.
- solarmist 13y agoI use StartSSL because they're cheap.
- replax 13y agoI also use startssl because their cert's are for free when you only have one non-commmercial domain!
- porter 13y agoRapidSSL because they were cheap and 37signals used them too.