OT: SSL certificates

OT: SSL certificates

Efraim Flashner efraim at flashner.co.il
Tue Mar 8 09:29:38 IST 2016


I use wosign for my free certs. They're good for up to 3 years, free is good, and afaik they're in all the browsers. The website is in chinese though, so that can make it a bit challenging.

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:05:03 +0200
Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I think it's time to move some of my sites to use https, but as I only had
> self-signed ssl so far I wonder if you ppl have any recommendation where to
> get the certificate from and how much
> should I expect to pay?
> 
> I have one domain with about 20 subdomains (the translated versions of my
> articles)
> and a few other domains with 1-2, sometimes even more subdomains.
> 
> Most of them are probably considered commercial as they have ads on it and
> on some of them I even have a few subscribers, but they are, unfortunately,
> not a big business. Nevertheless I think this might exclude some "open
> source" providers.
> 
> I looked at http://www.cacert.org/ but as I can see the certificate they
> use on their own site is not recognized by either Chrome or Firefox. That
> does not seem to be a good thing. (See https://www.cacert.org/ )
> 
> A found plenty of companies offering SSL certificates. One of them
> https://www.ssl.com/
> that was recommended by the domain registrar I am using had
> $177 / year for the first 3 hostname and then $49 / year for each
> additional hostname and $129/year for each wildcard domain.
> 
> Is that a reasonable price? Any suggestions?
> 
> regards
>    Gabor



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