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