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    • travisdh1T
      travisdh1 @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in SSL Certificates:

      @travisdh1 said in SSL Certificates:

      @BRRABill Yeah. Last time we updated at work I paid a little extra for a wildcard cert. So *.domain.com, it's all valid for the one cert.

      For my personal server, I just run Let's Encrypt.

      How much is a little? The last time I looked (it's been many years) a wildcard cert was 5X the cost of a normal cert, maybe more.

      You can pickup a Comodo cert for $94/year. Looks like today's pricing has majorly changed since the last time I bought a cert, single site certs for $9. Let's Encrypt is having a real nice effect on the market!

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      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill @Dashrender
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        @Dashrender said

        Why would you do domain.com? That's not a real service is it? it's generally better off being a redirector to a real service like www.domain.com.

        That was an example.

        Even after yesterday I still seem to be afraid to post real details online!

        vpn.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com
        mail.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com
        iDRAC.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com

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        • BRRABillB
          BRRABill
          last edited by

          For me it wasn't so much the cost as wondering of there was a better way than what I was doing.

          Part optimization, part learning what else might be out there.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @BRRABill
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            @BRRABill said in SSL Certificates:

            @Dashrender said

            Why would you do domain.com? That's not a real service is it? it's generally better off being a redirector to a real service like www.domain.com.

            That was an example.

            Even after yesterday I still seem to be afraid to post real details online!

            vpn.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com
            mail.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com
            iDRAC.brrabillisafraidoftheinternet.com

            LOL - if the host name is in DNS - then your non posting of the real links here is doesn't gain you anything.

            Google undoubtedly is looking through all of the newly registered domains daily (or rather minutely). Then Google looks to see if those domains have DNS entries, if they do, they then query every record it can in DNS. Then I bet it attempts to connect to at least the root of every record listed there, then starts the spidering.

            The main reason to not post your real domain is to keep script kiddies who peruse forums like these for things to attack just because you were talking about it.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill @Dashrender
              last edited by

              Look I wouldn't make fun of everyone's else fears.

              Seriously, just kidding. I'm learning. That's the best part about ML, not just teaching, but also breaking down dumb ideas people hold on to.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
                last edited by

                Well you helped break one wide open on me today - that spiders can't just call web servers anywhere they wanna go.

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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill @travisdh1
                  last edited by

                  @travisdh1 said

                  You can pickup a Comodo cert for $94/year. Looks like today's pricing has majorly changed since the last time I bought a cert, single site certs for $9. Let's Encrypt is having a real nice effect on the market!

                  Where did you see $9?

                  On Comodo the cheapest I see is $76.95.

                  Or did you mean elsewhere?

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                  • travisdh1T
                    travisdh1 @BRRABill
                    last edited by

                    @BRRABill said in SSL Certificates:

                    @travisdh1 said

                    You can pickup a Comodo cert for $94/year. Looks like today's pricing has majorly changed since the last time I bought a cert, single site certs for $9. Let's Encrypt is having a real nice effect on the market!

                    Where did you see $9?

                    On Comodo the cheapest I see is $76.95.

                    Or did you mean elsewhere?

                    You have to look elsewhere. I forget where exactly I saw that price, but it wasn't direct.

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                    • A
                      Alex Sage
                      last edited by

                      https://www.ssls.com/

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                      • BRRABillB
                        BRRABill @Alex Sage
                        last edited by

                        @aaronstuder said in SSL Certificates:

                        https://www.ssls.com/

                        Wow, thems some bargains.

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                        • BRRABillB
                          BRRABill @Alex Sage
                          last edited by

                          @aaronstuder said in SSL Certificates:

                          https://www.ssls.com/

                          Thanks for this.

                          My $70 a year GoDaddy cert was up. I bought the same type of cert from SSLS.COM for $15 for 3 years. TOTAL.

                          That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.

                          More money saved on ML. AWESOME.

                          And in the process learned a lot of certificates and domain validation.

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @BRRABill
                            last edited by

                            @BRRABill said in SSL Certificates:

                            @aaronstuder said in SSL Certificates:

                            https://www.ssls.com/

                            Thanks for this.

                            My $70 a year GoDaddy cert was up. I bought the same type of cert from SSLS.COM for $15 for 3 years. TOTAL.

                            That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.

                            More money saved on ML. AWESOME.

                            And in the process learned a lot of certificates and domain validation.

                            Nice!

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                            • BRRABillB
                              BRRABill
                              last edited by

                              I did come up with a question in all of this.

                              Not doing any real "business" online, I never really had a need for us to validate who we were.

                              But obviously, that is important to a company doing business online.

                              However, does anyone ever really check that stuff? I can say I don't think I've ever taken the time to validate a certificate was the physical address and stuff I thought it was supposed to be.

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1 @BRRABill
                                last edited by

                                @BRRABill said in SSL Certificates:

                                I did come up with a question in all of this.

                                Not doing any real "business" online, I never really had a need for us to validate who we were.

                                But obviously, that is important to a company doing business online.

                                However, does anyone ever really check that stuff? I can say I don't think I've ever taken the time to validate a certificate was the physical address and stuff I thought it was supposed to be.

                                I do check them before I'll use a website for the first time. Outside of that, not much.

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                                • BRRABillB
                                  BRRABill @travisdh1
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                                  @travisdh1 said

                                  I do check them before I'll use a website for the first time. Outside of that, not much.

                                  I was like, yeah that makes sense, yeah, of course. And then realized I had never done it.

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                                  • BRRABillB
                                    BRRABill
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                                    I still can't get over it was only $5 a year. LOL.

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                                    • dafyreD
                                      dafyre
                                      last edited by

                                      Some of the SSL folks do verify information. We actually had our SSL Certificate denied once because our Address on file with the SSL site at the time still had an old street name on it... Of course, all it took was an edit to fix that, but still...

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                                        Alex Sage @BRRABill
                                        last edited by

                                        @BRRABill said in SSL Certificates:

                                        I still can't get over it was only $5 a year. LOL.

                                        🙂

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                                        • BRRABillB
                                          BRRABill @Alex Sage
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                                          @aaronstuder Thanks again.

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                                            Alex Sage @BRRABill
                                            last edited by

                                            @BRRABill No Problem. I love saving money too! 🙂

                                            My hope is that Let's Encrypt is going to force paid for SSL certs to be more reasonable.

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