The Real Cost of a CloudFlare “Free” SSL Certificate.

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• Gunter Member

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  The first article provided nothing of value to the community apart from reiterating the standard and obvious vulnerabilities of SSL/TLS.
• GoodHosting Member

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  The issue is solved if you use "Strict SSL". This instructs CloudFlare's servers to only trust your certificate, and not any other certificate (as is default with Flexible SSL.)

  The second article complains about Windows XP support.

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• Profforg Member

  January 2015

  Roughly, it's -10% of traffic. But for every website % is different.
• William Veteran

  January 2015

  ..... both are not really relevant, just repeating bullshit that is pretty useless and complaining about XP (seriously?)

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• WickedGamingUK Member

  January 2015

  CloudFlare's free SSL will do more good than bad. Also as someone else mentioned you can set the SSL setting to strict and the mentioned security problems are resolved. Who really uses XP or anything less than ICS on the internet anyway?
• rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

  January 2015

  said: https://info.ssl.com/the-real-cost-of-a-cloudflare-free-ssl-certificate/

  Yeah, who would doubt that a company trying to sell you crazily overpriced SSL certs will have something to say about a competitor offering free ones...

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• dnwk Member

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  Well, the articles posted on a website that sells you SSL certificate. So, shall we really care about sales talk?
• vijai Member

  January 2015

  Depending upon the success of https://letsencrypt.org/ people selling single domain and wild card ssl might just go out of business. They will do alright though since they make most of their money through EV SSL.

  P.S. The relevance of this comment to the discussion makes as much sense as the relevance of the https://info.ssl.com/the-real-cost-of-a-cloudflare-free-ssl-certificate/ to the point they are trying to make :P

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• Chuck Member

  January 2015

  @vijai said:
  Depending upon the success of https://letsencrypt.org/ people selling single domain and wild card ssl might just go out of business. They will do alright though since they make most of their money through EV SSL.

  P.S. The relevance of this comment to the discussion makes as much sense as the relevance of the https://info.ssl.com/the-real-cost-of-a-cloudflare-free-ssl-certificate/ to the point they are trying to make :P

  That was easy. No need to sign up for anything.