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Heroku 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
by michaelbuckbee 12y ago
Heroku 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.