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If you're paying $200 for an SSL certificate, you're doing it wrong. But I don't think any of the points of the article change for cost > $0.

devhinton 13y ago
Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are looking at this being .071428571 % of total cost. So ummmmm maybe minimize your costs elsewhere :p
- ywyrd 13y ago
  Some of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.
  - devhinton 13y ago
    Yes. That is true. You are right.
  - dublinben 13y ago
    There's always free certificates like from StartSSL and CACert.
  - javert 13y ago
    $200 a year should be easily affordable under the US welfare system. Many people on welfare (oftentimes it's fraudulent, but government-encouraged, "disability" these days) make more than minimum wage. I am making a US-based comparison since you used the word "federal."
  - yeukhon 13y ago
    $200 certificate for a personal website? That's not necessary. What we need is to stop charging a SSL/TLS certificate so much to get the recommended level of cipher used.
- michaelt 13y ago
  Obviously $200 is cheap compared to a skyscraper or a space station. Compared to the ~$15 a year a .com domain costs, paying 10x that amount for an SSL certificate seems a bit on the high side.
  - drchoc 13y ago
    Exactly, if you want a more secure web, you need a system that is affordable to everyone.
glazskunrukitis 13y ago
Yeah, I had the same exact reaction. You can purchase SSL certificates really cheap nowadays, and even business ones costs under $100, e.g., here - https://getssl.me/en/ssl-certificates https://getssl.me/en/ssl-certificates.
- joeblau 13y ago
  You can get Class 1 certificates for free[1]. [1] - http://www.startssl.com/ http://www.startssl.com/
  - RKearney 13y ago
    Not for commercial/business use you can't. That's only for personal sites.

devhinton 13y ago

Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are looking at this being .071428571 % of total cost. So ummmmm maybe minimize your costs elsewhere :p

ywyrd 13y ago
Some of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.
- devhinton 13y ago
  Yes. That is true. You are right.
- dublinben 13y ago
  There's always free certificates like from StartSSL and CACert.
- javert 13y ago
  $200 a year should be easily affordable under the US welfare system. Many people on welfare (oftentimes it's fraudulent, but government-encouraged, "disability" these days) make more than minimum wage. I am making a US-based comparison since you used the word "federal."
- yeukhon 13y ago
  $200 certificate for a personal website? That's not necessary. What we need is to stop charging a SSL/TLS certificate so much to get the recommended level of cipher used.
michaelt 13y ago
Obviously $200 is cheap compared to a skyscraper or a space station. Compared to the ~$15 a year a .com domain costs, paying 10x that amount for an SSL certificate seems a bit on the high side.
- drchoc 13y ago
  Exactly, if you want a more secure web, you need a system that is affordable to everyone.

glazskunrukitis 13y ago

Yeah, I had the same exact reaction. You can purchase SSL certificates really cheap nowadays, and even business ones costs under $100, e.g., here - https://getssl.me/en/ssl-certificates https://getssl.me/en/ssl-certificates.

joeblau 13y ago
You can get Class 1 certificates for free[1]. [1] - http://www.startssl.com/ http://www.startssl.com/
- RKearney 13y ago
  Not for commercial/business use you can't. That's only for personal sites.