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Ask HN: Best place to buy SSL from?

12 pointsby stateabout 10 years ago
It has been a while since I have bought an SSL cert. I used to use Comodo. They&#x27;re alright, but nothing special.<p>Is there an SSL provider that people actually like?

10 comments

nailerabout 10 years ago
Hi Galen,<p>If you use Stripe, Twitter, npm, or your bank, you&#x27;ll see the company name in a green bar. That&#x27;s an EV certificate and is the only way for a website to prove a company&#x27;s identity.<p>EV certs are great, particularly if you&#x27;re selling something or people are logging into your site.<p>Since they involve a bunch of verification, the industry standard time get the certificate is normally about 7-21 days.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;certsimple.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;certsimple.com</a>, my company, live checks data while you enter to do EV in an average of 5 hours. It takes 80 seconds to apply, including making the CSR - no Q and A in a terminal, no installing anything, just cut and paste.<p>Because of this, we&#x27;re faster at EV than everyone else.<p>We also give 5% of our revenue to groups that make strong crypto happen - we cut our first cheque to OpenBSD Foundation last Friday. We also publish a bunch of interesting research around performance and security at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;certsimple.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;certsimple.com</a>, including OSS code to recreate our results.<p>Hope that helps! Email me any time at mike@certsimple.com if you have questions.<p>Mike<p>PS. if you don&#x27;t need EV, we recommend you get a free certificate from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsencrypt.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;letsencrypt.org</a> which should be launching soon.
joshstrangeabout 10 years ago
sslmate is the one I&#x27;d suggest. They are cheap, easy to use, developer friendly, and no BS. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sslmate.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sslmate.com&#x2F;</a>
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staunchabout 10 years ago
Namecheap sells &quot;Comodo PostiveSSL&quot; certs for $9&#x2F;year.
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acrooksabout 10 years ago
We use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gandi.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gandi.net&#x2F;</a> for all domains and SSL certs and have no complaints.
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kennpetersonabout 10 years ago
Comodo is cheapest CA now and provide highest web security. 256 bit encryption, unlimited reissue, unlimited server license and best support. Try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;comodosslstore.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;comodosslstore.com&#x2F;</a> to find best ssl deals.
sfunk1xabout 10 years ago
I use and have suggested <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startssl.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startssl.com&#x2F;</a> to several folks, who have all had good experiences. You do need to watch out for their login process, as it&#x27;s certificate-based. Lose your login cert and you&#x27;re in trouble. Tradeoff is cost.
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selectnullabout 10 years ago
I&#x27;ve used and been happy with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getssl.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getssl.me&#x2F;</a>
tfangelabout 10 years ago
Digicert all the way. Clean, painless and their support is top notch. Compare EV cost VS that of Comodo..
Aejiabout 10 years ago
Ssls.com or cheapsslsecurity.com
aepearsonabout 10 years ago
Godaddy is easy, and cheap.