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We provide free Wildcard Alpha SSL's with all our VPS.
I knew what you're going to say before I actually read it.
haha, yeah I have been saying it a lot I suppose, I just don't like this one because he has used and abused LEB/T for a classic bait and switch, and I am getting tired of his childish name calling.
Thats a really nice offer, but i didnt take vps + sslcert into this :P
But im guessing you aint selling 20$/year vps's
Yes we do, contact me if you're interested.
Don't think that's gonna happen...http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/437604/#Comment_437604
Is that through SingleHop?
Yes they're from SingleHop.
Lol, nice ad
but thanks, im suffering from too many leb's already 
But getting a little off topic..
On centrio's previous post thats now not more then a " . " he said, he wont offer ssl here
i guess thats not anymore, as he did, and thats why we are here now
For SSL certs I have been buying through a local company called Servertastic. They have been 100% reliable and SSL certs were $10/shot
What about WildCard? In Servertastic is too expensive.
$139 is cheap for wildcard SSL - these people treat you like a customer not like a criminal so pay the money and feel good about it!
GoGetSSL is my provider of choice when it comes to certificates.
You may try with ssl2buy if you need a wildcard cert - they currently sell AlphaSSL Wildcards for $49/yr.
Namecheap: $95/yr
https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-wildcard-certificate.aspx
GoGetSSL: $81.25/yr
https://www.gogetssl.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates/comodo-essentialssl-wildcard/
I've heard only good things about GoGetSSL, but I'd personally pay the slight premium for Namecheap since they're a major company with great customer service.
I'm a reseller there and I think I pay $9/cert. Awesome company with superb support. Andy is a great guy.
@mpkossen - Exactly my experience! Even getting certificates reissued, lost some enrollment links - always professional
GoGetSSL is pretty good, I've used them for some non-wildcards in the past. It's pretty hard to screw up SSL unless you're Centrio?
https://www.startssl.com/ has unlimited wildcard certifcates for $60 a year. You only pay for what it cost them to live and process your identity. Something like 98% acceptance. Free subdomain certificates as well. I use them on my mail servers and one domain websites.
love to see some decent wildcard cert offers..
You dont get the major players that match leb offers, GlobalSign, Thawte, Comodo, Verisign, etc... Or for that matter even come close to a reasonable price..
oh wow, if we all pitch in our experiences, I am sure some great offer wud pop up. I like to think there must be a similar offer available at the moment like the danish... we just dont know about it yet. I am regretting not having taken it when it was available.......
Of course not, that is how their resellers make money.
@nunim its more that there A-brands and you pay big bucks for those, most of them have less expensive B-brands, globalsign has alphassl other have them too..
But still love to see a thawte wildcard cert (possible with EV) for less then 200 bucks
It's not only a matter of having a brand name. The certs also differ in the encryption and liability/warranty level.
I never understood these liability / warranty levels? So what exactly do they guarantee? That the NSA won't get a copy of the cert? I kind of doubt this...
Well, the big difference, I believe, is that Globalsign provides huge discounts through its premium resellers for its AlphaSSL products. As @skagerrak mentioned, the level of warranty is rather low with AlphaSSL, so if that is kinda important to you (like, warranty in case the CA gets stolen), you better look for something like Thawte. In terms of security I disagree - AlphaSSL certificates can be 1024, 2048 or 4096 bits, just like it is the case with other more expensive products. The actual encryption method is a server-client dependent parameter; the certificate brand has plays no role here.
me personally, i dont care about the warranty levels, and im not woring about nsa (if they want they can) but allot of people on the web are still not that smart, and green just makes a better impression.. its just a color... but then again, those A brands, its just a name
It's more about warranty for mis-issued certificates and stolen CA certs.
TBH, IMHO the whole point of a few "chosen" companies selling certificates at their discretion because they urged the browser-coders to take money and only accept their certificate as trusted is very questionable.
Originally, the idea behind the warranty-level is AFAIK that the selling company is liable up to that amount if a third party has losses/damages because the certificate/it's algorithm didn't proof to be secure enough to protect the communication or the root cert was lost/compromised. Yet, ofc the buyer needs to file proof. ;-)
It's not about A or B brands... it's the type of validation that was required to issue the certificate. All those cheap certificates are domain validated certificates. It doesn't say anything about the owner of the domain or the certificate. If you need to achieve a higher level of trust, you can have the issuer of the certificate validate your personal and/or your company identity. It means more work for the issuers, also a higher level of "risk" for them since they vouch with their warranty that this identity is true. And that's why those certificates are more expensive. You can read more about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate
There may also be slight differences in how clients deal with different types of certificates. For example, Chrome browser, by default, only checks the revocation status of extended validation certificates on-the-fly; it doesn't do that with domain validated certificates.
I still don't understand the warranty. When can this warranty be claimed?
You say of the CA is stolen. If the CA is stolen, do you think they would have enough money to pay $10k or $100k or whatever to each one of the millions users who purchased certificates from that company?