I was thinking that too (about staying clear of godaddy) but looking around I found a lot of the companies I trust/admire were using godaddy SSL certs - github and 37signals do as I recall.
But then again, a lot of people drive crappy cars but that doesn't mean you should too! What really scares me about godaddy are all the horror stories from when people have tried to leave them! The other thing to bear in mind is that there are usually two reasons why you might need a SSL certificate. One is just because you need to securely transmit data, the other is because you are trying to prove your identity to the end user. Seems to me that when trust is the big factor you don't want to just go with whatever is cheapest. Otherwise they all seem to (or claim to) have similar features if you just need encryption. And apparently, or so wikipedia tells me, SSL certs were never designed to be used to verify ones identity. They were just a way of allowing secured data transfers. That's my two cents. (Almost as much as a godaddy ssl!!) On Apr 29, 2009, at 14:46, Scott Hodson <[email protected]> wrote: > > If' you're going to do **serious** commerce don't use GoDaddy. Some > browsers don't recognize GoDaddy as a trustworthy CA and will throw > security warnings to the user. If you can afford a little extra $ to > avoid losing some orders, stick with Verisign, Thawte, Entrust, etc... > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Nick Zadrozny <[email protected]> > wrote: >> TierraNet has certificates for $35/year. Ever so slightly more than >> GoDaddy, >> but, really, what's $5, or even $15? >> https://www.tierra.net/products/ssl >> I really like TierraNet because they're local (started by UCSD >> alums, even) >> and the quality of their account management interface and customer >> support >> is incomparably better than GoDaddy. You'd be surprised how much >> easier it >> is to buy domains without wading through piles of ridiculous ads. >> I don't use their hosting (yawn) or DNS servers (hard to beat DNS >> Made >> Easy), but I moved all of my domains there from GoDaddy and Gandi a >> few >> years back and it's been well worth the switch. >> -- >> Nick Zadrozny >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
