> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Perrine
> 
> I'll probably be buying up to 50-75 or more certificates a year, so volume
> discounts are a good thing.
> 
> Must be acceptable by all major current version browsers, eg Explorer, Safari,
> Chrome, Firefox.

I'm a huge fan of startssl free certs. There are two organizations that offer 
free certs - startssl and letsencrypt. Startssl has been around a lot longer, 
and I don't think letsencrypt deserves all the hype (nothing against 
letsencrypt; just saying they're overhyped, considering the existence of an 
older, more stable, free alternative has already been around this long). The 
one complaint I sometimes hear from people about startssl is that revokations 
are not free, but the way I figure it is like this: Letsencrypt is still beta. 
The next cheapest certs are $11 with revokation included. So what's the 
probability of needing a revokation? Suppose it's a 1% or even 10% probability, 
then on average, startssl free certs are still cheaper than the next best 
alternative.

Namecheap offers $9 Comodo PositiveSSL (Don't use it). Because it uses two 
intermediates, you run into client compatibility problems, because apparently a 
lot of software distributors don't test their product on multiple 
intermediates. Also, it's comodo that you said you want to avoid.

Namecheap also offers $11 RapidSSL, which I recommend as the 2nd alternative to 
startssl.
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