I use http://www.startssl.com/ for all my personal certifcates. I have not had any issues with the validations (once you have an account you can validate a domain by sending an email to a predefined list of contact addresses) and the certificates are issued instantly.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:32 AM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > I use these guys: http://www.cheapssls.com/ > > They sell Geotrust and Comodo certs for under $10/yr. The hassle > level is quite low. First you order a cert providing the usual > billing info, then you go to their web site, pick the order you just > paid for, go to a screen where you paste in your signing request, and > pick which e-mail address to send the confirmation message to. Click > a URL in the confirmation message and the signed cert shows up in a > few minutes. The certs are chained, but I've had no acceptance > problems once I realized I had to to add an extra Apache config line > to serve the intermediate cert. > > If you get a Comodo cert for example.com, it'll also work for > www.example.com. Other than that, they seem to be equivalent. > > If you just want something for testing, http://freessl.com/ will > provide a real 30 day Geotrust cert for free, with similarly low > hassle. At the end of the 30 days, you can renew the cert into a paid > one at cheapssls or any other Geotrust reseller. > > I realize there are places that will provide totally free certs, but > their hassle level is far greater. For $24 I can get a Comodo cert > that will make my SSL complaints go away for three years, which seems > like a bargain to me. > > R's, > John >
