Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by zumda » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 10:47 AM UTC

Mavyrk wrote: post #8

citricsquid wrote: post #2

What's your goal? There are all types of certificates, some cheap and some expensive. If you're aiming for cheap, companies like Namecheap and GoDaddy sell them for peanuts but they're "cheap" certificates, not with bells and whistles.

Is there a chance you could elaborate on this some? What would some example "bells and whistles" be with regards to SSL certs?

Mostly, they are the same. There are some "addons" that are possible with SSL certificats. For example wildcard certificats which are valid on all subdomains, included support, encryption strength, browser support and others.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by dangrossman » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:01 AM UTC

leftnode wrote: post #5

I get mine through DNSimple. I'm sure they're a reseller for another company, but $20 a year for a single domain SSL and $100 a year for wildcard.

That's expensive. The same GeoTrust RapidSSL certificate is $9.95/year through Namecheap, for example.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by charliepark » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:06 AM UTC

I get ours through our registrar (who also does our sideproject hosting), DreamHost. They have $15/year certificates (via Comodo), and you automatically get both the root and the www. subdomain of the certificate, included in the price.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by 8ig8 » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:06 AM UTC

FWIW, Stripe recommends DigiCert: https://stripe.com/help/ssl

> We recommend DigiCert — their certificates have very wide acceptance (for example, Facebook uses a DigiCert certificate). Other options include NameCheap and GoDaddy. They have slightly lower acceptance but their basic certificates cost $10 to $20.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by jvdh » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:13 AM UTC

StartSSL.com offers free yearly simple SSL certificates, and are supported by all major browsers. If you want higher-grade, you'll have to pay. They're very open about wanting to provide free simple certificates for everyone.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by shocks » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:16 AM UTC

I use http://exoware.net/ They're a small company, but they care and they do a good job so we get along just fine. SSL starts at £15 a year and goes up. £70 per year for a wildcard.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by hencq » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:16 AM UTC

Slightly off topic, but how are people using SSL with App Engine? Last time I checked they didn't support SSL on your own domain. I'm not sure if this is similar for e.g. Heroku. I presume most non-trivial apps would have some kind of secure login.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by ck2 » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:24 AM UTC

Don't feed the SSL cartel

Free SSL cert accepted by all modern browsers https://www.startssl.com/?app=1

They are owned and operated by http://www.startcom.org/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by plaes » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:32 AM UTC

I use cacert.org (free) on my private stuff. Unfortunately they are not included with Mozilla, so leaning towards startssl.com for my public project.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best company to buy SSL certificates from?

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Post by _urga » Mon, Feb 06, 2012, 11:48 AM UTC

jvdh wrote: post #15

StartSSL.com offers free yearly simple SSL certificates, and are supported by all major browsers. If you want higher-grade, you'll have to pay. They're very open about wanting to provide free simple certificates for everyone.

Re: StartSSL see http://www.belshe.com/2012/02/04/rethinking-ssl-for-mobile-a...