[ic] Re: Recommendation for CA to issue Certs.

[Nathan D. Olmscheid]

Barry,
That is fairly inexpensive to me. If your clients want SSL, you charge them 
for it? Its as easy as that? 

Not everything can be free. You can easily charge clients $100 a year for 
the cert?? or not? We have some smaller ma and pa shops that we host and 
they are even happy to pay that  price? And our larger clients, they could 
care less. 

Nathan 

P.S. I will say that Thawte is a pain in the butt to deal with though. Some 
of there CS reps are pretty far out there!!! 

Barry Treahy, Jr. writes: 

> Nathan D. Olmscheid wrote: 
> 
>> We are using thawte wild card certs. (sub domain certs) Work fine for us.
>> Assigning your own. Same security, its just that browsers will not 
>> recognize it as a trusted cert.
>> Nathan
>  
> 
> Hi Nathan, 
> 
> perhaps you missed the point, I am with Thawte and their rates for 
> wildcards have jumped from $250 per year when we first started to $400 
> plus $50 per host.  $500 per year (for two hosts) for an electronic 
> transaction that requires very little effort on their part for an 
> automated process is extreme... 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Barry 
> 
>> 
>> Barry Treahy, Jr. writes: 
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> I have used Thawte for the past five years, primarily because they were
>>> one of the few CA's that issued wildcards, and also because they were
>>> the cheapest.  Since that time, Verisign swallowed them up and Thawte
>>> lost much of their identity we as well as their desire to price
>>> wildcards so that small business can easily afford them without a
>>> zillion hassles.  During this same time, it appears that many of the
>>> other CA's have either gone away, merged, or stopped issuing wildcards
>>> too.  We are not an ISP but enjoyed the flexibility of the wildcards
>>> because of the ability to easily replace faulty equipment or testing
>>> equipment without issuing a unique cert to each system.
>>> You admins that host your own systems, how do you tackle this?
>>> Any recommendations on an inexpensive CA that does still handle 
>>> wildcards?
>>> I'm sick of Thawte, so if I must go for individual certs, any
>>> recommendations on a CA in general as long as it isn't Versign or 
>>> Thawte?
>>> Lastly, what are the major drawbacks of just creating self-signed certs?
>>> Regards,
>>> Barry
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