Least expensive wildcard cert?
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Has anyone purchased a wildcard cert recently from a trusted authority? I need the least expensive option, as is tradition in IT.
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
Has anyone purchased a wildcard cert recently from a trusted authority? I need the least expensive option, as usual in IT.
Have never purchased a wildcard certificate in like 10 years so I have no feedback on that one sorry
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
Has anyone purchased a wildcard cert recently from a trusted authority? I need the least expensive option, as is tradition in IT.
Well, the least expensive option is letsencrypt. It's not a wildcard, true, but the certs are free, so why do you care how many you have to get? The Debian and CentOS clients take care of them all for you, no extra effort.
If it must be a wildcard cert for some reason, then I don't know anymore.
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We just use LetsEncrypt and no wild cards.
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Let's encrypt is great, and I use it too, but that is not a wildcard cert solution. There are many cases (mostly around time not cert cost) where it is more effective to buy a wildcard cert
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@aaronstuder said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
This is not helpful. While it may be a good choice, we can all Google and get a link. The point of this thread is for a recommendation.
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@scottalanmiller said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
We just use LetsEncrypt and no wild cards.
Do you know if their certs will work for VMWare? The documentation I've read states that they don't have certs for anything except apache and IIS.
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@scottalanmiller said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
We just use LetsEncrypt and no wild cards.
Do you know if their certs will work for VMWare? The documentation I've read states that they don't have certs for anything except apache and IIS.
Jared and I use them for other things like Nginx. A very is basically a very, they aren't application specific. They don't do wild cards, but I would expect them to work on any web server.
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@scottalanmiller said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@scottalanmiller said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
We just use LetsEncrypt and no wild cards.
Do you know if their certs will work for VMWare? The documentation I've read states that they don't have certs for anything except apache and IIS.
Jared and I use them for other things like Nginx. A very is basically a very, they aren't application specific. They don't do wild cards, but I would expect them to work on any web server.
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Dammit
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@scottalanmiller said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
We just use LetsEncrypt and no wild cards.
Do you know if their certs will work for VMWare? The documentation I've read states that they don't have certs for anything except apache and IIS.
Are you required to have it on the VMWare host? Can you point things to a proxy and let stuff talk through that?
I am sure you could get it on a VMWare host, but the way it works, you would need each host reachable from the public internet.
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@Grey this is one of the places where a purchased SSL (wildcard or just a few SANS) still makes sense. Let's Encrypt is continually improving, but a place with many internal systems wanting to use a 3rd part CA cert is still a use case for a purchased wildcard cert.
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I used ssls.com to but a regular certificate and it was crazy cheap, $5.
Their cheapest wildcard looks like it is $85.
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@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
I used ssls.com to but a regular certificate and it was crazy cheap, $5.
Their cheapest wildcard looks like it is $85.
Thanks. Sent this up the chain! Let's see how things go.
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
I used ssls.com to but a regular certificate and it was crazy cheap, $5.
Their cheapest wildcard looks like it is $85.
Thanks. Sent this up the chain! Let's see how things go.
I had absolutely no problems with them.
In fact, I was pissed at myself I had been paying so damn much!
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@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
I used ssls.com to but a regular certificate and it was crazy cheap, $5.
Their cheapest wildcard looks like it is $85.
Thanks. Sent this up the chain! Let's see how things go.
I had absolutely no problems with them.
In fact, I was pissed at myself I had been paying so damn much!
That's a good way to describe my boss' face. He kept asking why there was such a price difference between this and Symantec's certs since that's what the org has been using for many, many years. That led to discussions of root auth and key length, but in the end I kinda just shrugged and said that the certs were no different.
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StartSSL.com "was" great for stuff like this till they went & messed it all up!
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@FATeknollogee said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
StartSSL.com "was" great for stuff like this till they went & messed it all up!
And made it quite clear they didn't care that they messed it all up. That software developers will make mistakes is a given, that they quickly fix mistakes is what I want to see.
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@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@Grey said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
@BRRABill said in Least expensive wildcard cert?:
I used ssls.com to but a regular certificate and it was crazy cheap, $5.
Their cheapest wildcard looks like it is $85.
Thanks. Sent this up the chain! Let's see how things go.
I had absolutely no problems with them.
In fact, I was pissed at myself I had been paying so damn much!
That's a good way to describe my boss' face. He kept asking why there was such a price difference between this and Symantec's certs since that's what the org has been using for many, many years. That led to discussions of root auth and key length, but in the end I kinda just shrugged and said that the certs were no different.
Easy answer - all free and cheap products have an overpriced equivalent to take advantage of suckers. The very fact that people ask "well why does it cost so much" proves the value of simply overcharching to get their money.
