[Pugged] SSL options and providers

[David Champion]

Chris Hettinger wrote:
> A upcoming project at work will require me to look into SSL certificates...
> 
> My first questions came after finding http://www.instantssl.com/ - Instant SSL.
> ...their basic Instant SSL single Cert it is $125 a year...
 > Verisign and other providers are in the range of $450 for a year.
> 
> 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.

I haven't looked into the apache-ssl.org thing, or instantssl.

The reason that Verisign and Thawte are the same price is because they 
are the same company. One of those markets where the biggest player 
ended up buying all the competition. Sound familiar to any other company?

Verisign also runs the "internic" domain registration. They're not as 
big as MS, but they have just as much of a stranglehold on the market.

-dc