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Does anybody else think that $20 a month for a SSL certificate is way too much, Heroku or not? I can get a domain-validated SSL certificate for $5.95 per year a
by quicksilver03 12y ago
Does anybody else think that $20 a month for a SSL certificate is way too much, Heroku or not? I can get a domain-validated SSL certificate for $5.95 per year and even providers of shared hosting are able to install it at no cost (WebFaction and NearlyFreeSpeech come to mind).
- michaelbuckbee 12y agoHeroku doesn't do a great job explaining what that $20/mo provides - it's not for a SSL certificate. It's for a SSL terminating load balancer that sits in front of your app instances.
- Artemis2 12y agoThat's still very expensive, Cloudflare offers it for free, with a free certificate.
- dangrossman 12y agoThat Cloudflare offers it for free doesn't change the economics for everyone else. They do a lot for free that anyone else would charge for. IP allocations are not free, extra load balancers are not free, labor to set up custom certs on load balancers is not free. If you put a CDN in front of your site and want SSL termination on it, then every node in every location needs to have that cert installed and potentially an extra IP address for it, each. Companies aren't charging extra for SSL solely because they think they can gouge you on it; it's really not free to deploy.