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Ask HN: Best place to buy SSL from?
It has been a while since I have bought an SSL cert. I used to use Comodo. They're alright, but nothing special.
Is there an SSL provider that people actually like?
- aepearson 11y agoGodaddy is easy, and cheap.
- joshstrange 11y agosslmate is the one I'd suggest. They are cheap, easy to use, developer friendly, and no BS. https://sslmate.com/ https://sslmate.com/
- jdoss 11y agoI highly recommend SSLMate too. Buying a SSL cert via CLI and automatic SSL renewal and updates via cronjob make it awesome. Not to mention it has configuration templates that make getting a best practice config for almost everything you would use a SSL cert on. https://sslmate.com/blog/post/sslmate_mkconfig https://sslmate.com/blog/post/sslmate_mkconfig
- kaolinite 11y agoAnother vote for SSLMate. Used them recently and was stunned at how great they are. Definitely an SSL company for developers/sysadmins (in a good way).
- acrooks 11y agoWe use https://www.gandi.net/ https://www.gandi.net/ for all domains and SSL certs and have no complaints.
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- sfunk1x 11y agoI use and have suggested https://www.startssl.com/ https://www.startssl.com/ to several folks, who have all had good experiences. You do need to watch out for their login process, as it's certificate-based. Lose your login cert and you're in trouble. Tradeoff is cost.
- edgan 11y agoMy issue with them is their client ssl certificate is cumbersome, and at least their free service is regularly down for "maintenance"
- staunch 11y agoNamecheap sells "Comodo PostiveSSL" certs for $9/year.
- akg_67 11y agoI second Namecheap. I use the same SSL certificate for my web service. I used to use free cert from startSSL but they declined to renew the free one and the cost was too high so I switched to Namecheap.
- edgan 11y agoI personally use ssls.com. It is slightly cheaper than namecheap.com for multiple year, and it is actually namecheap.com by another name. On a side note, I would only buy one year certificates at this point, because Lets Encrypt is about to make them free.
- selectnull 11y agoI've used and been happy with https://getssl.me/ https://getssl.me/
- nailer 11y agoHi Galen, If you use Stripe, Twitter, npm, or your bank, you'll see the company name in a green bar. That's an EV certificate and is the only way for a website to prove a company's identity. EV certs are great, particularly if you're selling something or people are logging into your site. Since they involve a bunch of verification, the industry standard time get the certificate is normally about 7-21 days. https://certsimple.com https://certsimple.com, my company, live checks data while you enter to do EV in an average of 5 hours. It takes 80 seconds to apply, including making the CSR - no Q and A in a terminal, no installing anything, just cut and paste. Because of this, we're faster at EV than everyone else. We also give 5% of our revenue to groups that make strong crypto happen - we cut our first cheque to OpenBSD Foundation last Friday. We also publish a bunch of interesting research around performance and security at http://certsimple.com http://certsimple.com, including OSS code to recreate our results. Hope that helps! Email me any time at mike@certsimple.com if you have questions. Mike PS. if you don't need EV, we recommend you get a free certificate from http://letsencrypt.org http://letsencrypt.org which should be launching soon.
- tfangel 11y agoDigicert all the way. Clean, painless and their support is top notch. Compare EV cost VS that of Comodo..
- Aeji 11y agoSsls.com or cheapsslsecurity.com
- kennpeterson 11y agoComodo is cheapest CA now and provide highest web security. 256 bit encryption, unlimited reissue, unlimited server license and best support. Try https://comodosslstore.com/ https://comodosslstore.com/ to find best ssl deals.
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