SSL Certificates
Hello this is my first post. I am hoping to get some decent response to this and I am aware that there may be other similar questions, so links to other web sites and private messages are welcome! This is sort of a two part question.
First, I have been tasked with renewing our existing SSL Certificate for our web mail site. I have many questions regarding this. One is whether it is worthwhile to have this EV SSL Certificate, which is significantly more expensive than regular SSL Certs are.
Our current 3rd party CA is RapidSSL. I have heard good things about them but am supposed to look at other companies before making a decision. Any recommendations on either a different company or whether to pursue EV for even more confidence in our site would be the first thing I am looking for.
The second part is really how do I find the Certificate on my web server? What might it look like or be called? How do I generate the info on renewing it or will I get decent instructions on how to do this? I don't want to screw this up as I've heard if I make a mistake it is likely that I'll have to go back and spend all the money again! That would not be good.
I appreciate your help and look forward to checking in and helping where I can. This seems like a good forum.
Finntroll posted this at 09:38 — 13th September 2007.
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Though there are a large number of entities selling secure certificates, there are primarily 6 major SSL certificate providers. Whoever you purchase your SSL certificate from will most likely be either one of these 6 or a reseller for one of them. All 6 have 128 bit key encryption.
The primary SSL certificate providers are:
Verisign
Thawte
InstantSSL
Entrust
Baltimore
Geotrust
To get more detailed info about each of them, go to http://www.ourshop.com/resources/ssl-recommendation.html
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tummy posted this at 08:00 — 17th September 2007.
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You may have SSL certificate from the company that has it on their web site. For example,Namecheap.com offer SSL certificate starting from $12.88. This company is well-known and teir services can be trusted.
DavidVilia posted this at 08:21 — 19th September 2007.
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Yes NameCheap.com do offer SSL certificates. They are resellers and they are selling SSL from other biggest producers of SSL. I think that it is ok buy SSL from namechep.com, because if you buy it directly it is more expensive.
demopaul posted this at 07:11 — 20th September 2007.
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You can also get SSL certificates from ahosting.biz, they also resell SSL certificates https://www.securepaynet.net/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?prog%5Fid=256664
Freedom posted this at 08:48 — 24th September 2007.
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Right, moreover Ahosting.biz certificate fearures are:
But I didn't find who they have reselled from.
Smp Business Hosting posted this at 13:47 — 24th September 2007.
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I know a lot of people who are happy with namecheap's ssl cert's.
Freedom: ahosting.biz is reselling cert's and domains via Godaddy.
Regards, Steve
Dangerous.Script posted this at 08:37 — 27th September 2007.
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Does it make ahosting.biz certs more expensive?
I guess godaddy should be reselling from someone as well.
I think namecheap.com offer is enticing.
http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/ssl-certificates.asp?from=index&link=learnmore
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Smp Business Hosting posted this at 19:51 — 27th September 2007.
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It certainly costs a lot more to buy a cert from ahosting than it does Godaddy.
Regards, Steve
Musson posted this at 13:48 — 4th October 2007.
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Any data behind your statement? I'm just curious. As usuallty resellers buy SSL certs in bulk from their upsream provider, which makes the price difference minimal.
Also what's the difference between certs offered on ahosting.biz site:
Turbo SSL® Certificate
High-Assurance Certificate
Extended Validation Certificate???
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Smp Business Hosting posted this at 19:33 — 4th October 2007.
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Godaddy's SSL's
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=8979
Ahosting's SSL's
https://www.securepaynet.net/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?prog_id=256664&ci=1789&
You’ll notice that it's the same cert’s yet Godaddy charges $17.99 for their basic compared to Ahosting that charges $55.90.
Ahosting is using Godaddy's reseller api, all they do is sit back and take the profit. Godaddy receives the orders and processes them, provides support and everything else, and then ahosting will receive a check for all the sales that went through the site (obviously Godaddy takes out their share). So they don't by in bulk.
With regards to the difference; the big difference is the level of assurance to the site viewer, with the later cert the company buying the cert has to go through a much more vigorous process in order to be validated in comparison to the first cert where they only do a domain check.
Regards, Steve
247SiteAlert posted this at 02:32 — 13th October 2007.
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SSL's all do basically the same thing: encrypt the data between the server and the browser - so why spend more money than necessary? I use a Turbo SSL Cert on one of my sites, I paid 19.95 and it's been fine.
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akopayan posted this at 08:33 — 15th October 2007.
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Who do you use it fom? It seems you have used it from Namecheap.com. Right?
ohrana posted this at 09:11 — 1st October 2007.
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Naecheap.com offers RapidSSL is $14.88 when purchased for one year and just $12.88 when purchased for three years. Other certificates have lower price when purchased for more than one year.
What does RapidSSL mean?
crucialx posted this at 00:59 — 12th October 2007.
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As others have said, check out namecheap - they are quite good. There is a not a huge amount of difference (in terms of security) between most companies SSL certs, the main thing is more about how recognized they are.
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Angala Salawa posted this at 07:43 — 5th November 2009.
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First, I have been tasked with renewing our existing SSL Certificate for our web mail site. I have many questions regarding this. One is whether it is worthwhile to have this EV SSL Certificate, which is significantly more expensive than regular SSL Certs are.
Our current 3rd party CA is RapidSSL. I have heard good things about them but am supposed to look at other companies before making a decision. Any recommendations on either a different company or whether to pursue EV for even more confidence in our site would be the first thing I am looking for.
The second part is really how do I find the Certificate on my web server? What might it look like or be called? How do I generate the info on renewing it or will I get decent instructions on how to do this? I don't want to screw this up as I've heard if I make a mistake it is likely that I'll have to go back and spend all the money again! That would not be good.
I appreciate your help and look forward to checking in and helping where I can. This seems like a good forum.
I was surfing for buying SSL certificate for my site and I came across your thread I cant answer your all questions but your first question about is it worth going for EV certificate I would say yes I agree with you in price difference but I have a solution for that also when I was surfing I came across a site https://www.thesslstore.com they are providing Geotrust's True Business ID with EV certificate for just 174$ the lowest I suppose over internet I have surfed many sites for EV SSL and what I got is 249$, 399$ you can see the huge difference I thought you might be interested in knowing.
whwkim posted this at 03:59 — 16th November 2009.
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Thawte SSL certificate is for US$49, including free installation.
Please refer to the following link for more details:
http://www.thawte.com/ssl-digital-certificates/ssl123/index.html
It supports up to 256-bit encrypton.
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