Buying an SSL certificate from my hosting company

[AffiliateDreamer]

Hi,

My hosting company is selling GeoTrust SSL certifications for almost 1/3 the price.

Is there a catch to this or is it EXACTLY like me buying it from geotrust themselves?

The only potential downside is the support possible?

[jsinger]

Last time I looked, GeoTrust offered several varieties of SSL certificates with quite a range in pricing. Go to their website and read about them.

[Corey Bryant]

There are also resellers that resell these certs for cheaper as well. They might be getting them from that company.

Or if your hosting company is pretty large, they might have purchased a bulk of SSL certs from that company to resell at a lower rate and pass along some savings to you.

-Corey

[AffiliateDreamer]

GeoTrust:
quickssl 189
quickssl premium $249

Hosting company:
quickssl $49
quickssl premium $94

[Corey Bryant]

Nothing wrong with those prices. Those are the prices I have seen advertised on other websites. It seems they are not even marking those prices up which is interesting

-Corey

[Haary]

Why don't you use OpenSSL? It's free. With the version 1.0 which should be released in a few months you can be sure that this SSL certificate is reliable. Currently version 0.08 is available.

Or what is your opinion of OpenSSL?

Take a look at
OpenSSL.org

I am going to use OpenSSL. I am just waiting for version 1.0
I think OpenSSL will gain lots of downloads starting with version 1.0

[Corey Bryant]

I tried to test that in Firefox... and went to the https site. It said the cert expired in 2003. I wanted to see if it was already installed in Firefox. So my opinion of them is very low.

If they are free (like cacert.org), but most of them are not installed in browsers and this would lead to other problems because consumers would be getting errors.

-Corey