[Pugged] SSL options and providers

[Chris Hettinger]

A upcoming project at work will require me to look into SSL =
certificates. Upon some initial looking I can across a small list of =
providers but it generated some questions. I was wondering if anyone =
here has had any specific experience or knowledge that may help me in my =
selection.

The project I will be working will not be a shopping cart with credit =
card transactions, mostly just dealing with securing confidential data =
for transmission over the net. Securing data given in a form from with a =
web site, also protected by a login. After reviewing some of the =
providers options I am assuming their basic Secure Site Certificates =
will fill my order just fine.

My first questions came after finding http://www.instantssl.com/ - =
Instant SSL. Their packages =
(http://www.instantssl.com/products/ssl.html) prices are significant =
lower than that of other providers. For their basic Instant SSL single =
Cert it is $125 a year... Verisign and other providers are in the range =
of $450 for a year. It may be in the fine print the difference.

Thawte, is another provider I found. http://www.thawte.com similar =
prices to verisign.

Also found http://www.apache-ssl.org/ ??? "It is licensed under a =
BSD-sytle license, which means, in short, that you are free to use it =
for commercial or non-commercial purposes..." Is this a valid option for =
my needs? Dave, you may need to answer this one specifically Mr. hosting =
provider :)
Ok I will continue looking over each as well, but any suggestions would =
be greatly appreciated.
-ch