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SSL Certificates - differences

Asked 2011-02-05T01:40:13.943
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How come the prices on SLL certificates are so drastically varied? GoDaddy and Namecheap for example have them starting at $9 and $49 respectively. Then Verisign has them starting at $1500!

What's the difference? That's a huge price difference.

I have an application where each user account is on it's own subdomain, and so I need a certificate that covers them all.

Thoughts, suggestions?

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I believe the cost of an SSL cert generally comes down to things like encryption strength, issue time, update time, support, warranty, and things of that nature.

With regard to users on sub domains how about a wildcard ssl certificate from Comodo? Expensive but will cover your entire site in one hit. http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/ssl/ssl-certificate-sgc-wildcard.html

Edit Found a comparison site http://www.whichssl.com/comparisons/index.html

answered 2011-02-05T01:50:59.690

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