SSL Certificate - Recommendations?

Hawk Tuah · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:10

Hi,

I need to get an SSL certificate for a system at work.

Can anyone recommend an issuer. Its not a big commercial system, so ~£800 per year for verisign one is a bit ridiculous.

akakjs · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:13

Go daddy where fairly cheap and widely supported as a Certificate authority, and if you google a bit you can trackdown discount codes. There are free alternatives (like http://www.cacert.org/), but the CA certificates are not as widely pre-installed.

akakjs

Rob7865 · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:17

+1 for Go Daddy

gord · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:38

We used Comodo. Pretty good, lost my key at one point and they reissued the cert pretty nippy.

Izi · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:02

Free: http://www.startssl.com/
not free but cheap: http://www.trustico.co.uk/products/rapidssl/cheap-rapidssl-ssl-certificate.php

matja · 16 Dec 2010 at 18:15

Goddady were cheap and easy last time I used them but not single root, dunno if they are now.
Last ones I got were from namecheap.com - a RapidSSL reseller. Issued my wildcard certs in a few minutes, cheap, no hassles. Their website is a pleasure to use compared to Godaddy's advert-fest, too.

Beansprout · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:35

I find the Godaddy site a pain personally. Totally absurd, in my face and slow.

I think Servertastic are pretty unbeatable in terms of price and service

Sp00n · 17 Dec 2010 at 10:13

I use https://www.securacert.co.uk/

Support is excellent and the account managers are very helpful.

topbanana · 17 Dec 2010 at 12:36

Is it an internal system? If so, you can manage this all yourself.

daz · 17 Dec 2010 at 12:36

Sp00n said:
I use https://www.securacert.co.uk/

Support is excellent and the account managers are very helpful.

Hmmm, I think they are the company that thought it would be funny to contact our customers and pretend to be their SSL company when a renewal was nearly due...