Hi,

Can anyone recommend a website that does cheap SSL certificates - I know I can google but want a decent recommended SSL company that looks after there customers.

Kind Regards

Al

Who is the best for SSL Certificates?
  • Let’s Encrypt
  • Comodo SSL
  • Start SSL
  • DigiCert
  • GeoTrust
  • SSLS
  • GoDaddy Certs
  • Cloudflare
  • Startech
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Well you can start with Let’s Encrypt

Comodo SSL

Start SSL

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I don’t know about cheap, but I have found digicert support to be the absolute hands down best in the business. I am better at certs these days, but a few years ago when it was all voodoo to me, they helped me get my entire brand new Exchange 2010 SP3 install certed up correctly on the phone.

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SSL Certificates are such a commodity item. Just buy it from whoever you have hosting from or let the client buy it if they want to

Ah the old good/fast/cheap triangle - pick two!

Digicert are excellent but for labs/testing you can get 90 days free here https://ssl.comodo.com/free-ssl-certificate.php

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www.ssl2buy.com they often have discounts on specific brands too, for free you can’t beat letsencrypt, but these are rolling 90 certificates

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Another vote for letsebcrypt here , cant get cheaper than free

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One more vote for Let’s Encrypt. I use their certificates for all of our SSL needs.

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StartSSL got bought by a Chinese outfit and has gotten SUPER sketchy. They were low budge and cool for a long time. I have had an account for my personal domains for YEARS. Too bad.

https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2016-02-16-why-i-stopped-using-startssl-because-of-qihoo-360.html

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Thanks Brianinca, I didn’t know until now… good info :slight_smile:

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We use DigiCert. Great customer service, great reputation, not too expensive.

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$42/year wild cards.

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https://www.cheapsslshop.com/ they often have discount offers running on ssl certs. Seems cheap though.

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I suggest ClickSSL www.clickssl.com Review | Best support + Lowest Price for best customer support.

Started using GeoTrust’s RapidSSL product of late, very cheap/low cost single site and wildcard certificates.

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Letsencrypt!

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ok - I used lets encrypt as it was built into my web host however when I go to my website it still say its not secure but if I go to a login page it says it is secure?

Not sure what I am doing wrong here?

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$29.88 USD - https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-multi-domain.aspx - NameCheap has PositiveSSL Multi-Domain certs with the first 3 hostnames included.

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Might help if you narrowed the question down a bit.

What sort of cert do your want ? What’s it going to be used on ? These things make a difference.

For example, I’ve been using SSLMate on a number of Linux hosted services - $15.95/year for a basic cert (gets you fqdn + www.fqdn ), IIRC it’s $25/year/name for a multi-name cert. On a Linux box it makes managing certs almost trivial thanks to the program they provide that more or less manages it for you - if you want, it’ll automatically renew and download the new cert for you !

But on (say) a Windows box, it’s a little less convenient. Though I do have a cert from SSLMate that’s used on a Juniper box - just a matter of making a combined (cert+chain+key) file and loading that.

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