I’m using the Namecheap RapidSSL for my personal site and it works well. I’m not a huge fan of letsencrypt’s 90 day cert length, especially since some of the automation isn’t entirely figured out. Also letsencrypt doesn’t to wildcards (yet?).
-Matt > On Feb 5, 2016, at 07:36, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
