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

[Nathan D. Olmscheid]

I know he was talking about a wild card cert. Thats what we use for our 
clients on our servers. It just don't feel it is that expensive. We are a 
hosting company and we have a cert for our server, then each client on that 
server gets a subdomain cert (wild card cert) 

Nathan 

P.S. I still may be missing something, but it does not seem that expensive 
to me. 

Eric Paul writes: 

> At 04:47 PM 2/20/2002, you wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Nathan, 
> 
> I think you missed the point again.  He was not talking about reselling 
> the cert (which AFAIK is illegal under the terms of the Verisign license) 
> he's talking about using a wildcard cert on multiple servers WHICH HE 
> OWNS.  And I agree, $500 is outrageous for that.  I had looked at getting 
> a wildcard cert back when they were only a little bit more than 2 regular 
> certs ($250 instead of $200) but have since scaled everything back onto 
> one server for my internal stuff...  Just too expensive...  Although it 
> would be much more convenient to SSL-authenticate my mail on the mail 
> server instead of having to gate it around :P 
> 
> Eric 
> 
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