Re: FN-FORUM: Good reliable fast Uk host!

date posted 27th January 2008 15:34

On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:15:36 Alex Libby wrote:

> So I take it you have not looked at the likes of Comodo, then Dom - its

We've bought from instantssl.com in the past for a number of customers.
and for our own use.

> Check out http://www.comodo.com/corporate/, or www.instantssl.com...
>
> It does not matter to me where the certificate comes from, but if this one
> is valid for a normal e-commerce site, and can even be bought for 80
> dollars from their US site, then this one is a no-brainer. Assuming the
> price that Andrew quoted was ex VAT, it still comes in as less...

Sam's offering a RapidSSL cert for eight quid. RapidSSL's own website
lists them for 69 dollars. I think I'll buy off Sam, thankyou very much.

I also expect that Sam's support is a hell of a lot better than anything I'd
get from rapidssl.com!

The whole business is a rip-off AFAIAC [1]. Why on earth should a string of
digits that's valid for wildcard subdomains be vastly more expensive than
a string of digits that only authenticates one subdomain? Why should
extending the expiry date cost so much? It's just a number!

And whose bright idea was it to mix up encryption with authentication, eh?

[1] Excepting Sam, of course.