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Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by glazskunrukitis »

mankyd wrote: post #10

You can get free SSL certs through http://www.startssl.com/ . Granted, their website is _horrendous_ to navigate. Also, the certs are encryption only - no real identity verification - so they won't light up your address bar blue or green.

While they are great for hobby projects and personal sites there are some differences. For example, they are not for commercial use: "Class 1 certificates are limited to client and server certificates, whereas the later is restricted in its usage for non-commercial purpose only." via https://www.startssl.com/policy.pdf

Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by mrinterweb »

mankyd wrote: post #10

You can get free SSL certs through http://www.startssl.com/ . Granted, their website is _horrendous_ to navigate. Also, the certs are encryption only - no real identity verification - so they won't light up your address bar blue or green.

If you pay for the class 2 cert from startssl, they do an identity verification. Startssl's, paid cert is still cheaper than this getssl's $70 cert.

Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by tss20147 »

mrinterweb wrote: post #13
mankyd wrote: post #10

You can get free SSL certs through http://www.startssl.com/ . Granted, their website is _horrendous_ to navigate. Also, the certs are encryption only - no real identity verification - so they won't light up your address bar blue or green.

If you pay for the class 2 cert from startssl, they do an identity verification. Startssl's, paid cert is still cheaper than this getssl's $70 cert.

You don't pay for class 2 certs from startssl. You pay for class 2 validation. After validation you can generate an unlimited number of class 2 certs at no cost including wildcard certs. Validation is cheaper than a single premium cert from getssl.

Startssl does charge per cert for EV certs. The first cert is $199.90 and subsequent are $49.90. A bargain compared to most ssl cert providers.

Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by jmgao »

mrinterweb wrote: post #13
mankyd wrote: post #10

You can get free SSL certs through http://www.startssl.com/ . Granted, their website is _horrendous_ to navigate. Also, the certs are encryption only - no real identity verification - so they won't light up your address bar blue or green.

If you pay for the class 2 cert from startssl, they do an identity verification. Startssl's, paid cert is still cheaper than this getssl's $70 cert.

StartSSL also lets you use subjectAltName to have multiple domains on one cert so that you can host multiple domains off of a single IP.

Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by kdsudac »

As other posters pointed out, there are obviously competitors in the space (as I'm sure you were already aware).

In my experience, buying SSL certs can be a little confusing since there are so many providers and different types of certs. I did the research to figure out what product I needed, but I can imagine a sizable niche of customers who just want someone to tell them what they need.

Re: Show HN: My side project that grew - cheap SSL certificates

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Post by stfu »

downandout wrote: post #18

OK, my apologies to the OP, but how on earth does this stuff get to the front page? Is there an HN upvoting bot floating around?

Same here. I wish there were at least some kind of valuable information somewhere included.

For example how OP is (planing to) promote such a completely generic, replaceable product with a gazillion competitors and no way to differentiate the product. Except of cause with the HN upvoting bot :)

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