[159184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken A)
Thu Dec 27 15:53:30 2012
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:53:09 -0600
From: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I've found rapidssl wildcards are generally the cheapest (~$120), and
are not limited to a number of servers. In practice, neither are the
other brands.
Ken
On 12/27/2012 1:47 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this area...
>
> I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4 domains. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per physical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 servers.
>
> This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before?
>
> Thanks
> Blake
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Ken Anderson
