Certificates for your Web 2.0 app

To make it cheaper for myself to register SSL Certs I have created a Go Daddy reseller certificate shop WideCert . I encourage everyone to use SSL on all web apps that use passwords or contain private data.

I find it really is somewhat disrespectful to users when a web site owner requires the users to type their passwords in clear text. In particular nowadays with WIFI where it is really easy to sniff the passwords of people around you.

For this reason I want to offer these SSL certs at the cheapest possible price to rails and other web 2.0 app developers. At the time of writing the lowest price I can offer is $27.95 for a 1 year Turbo Cert. GoDaddy is offering the same at the time of writing for $19.95, which I should be able to match this coming week. If you need the cert quickly go get it there. I will update this as well as post another entry in the blog when this is available.

I have posted complete instructions over on my technical blog in Installing certs on lighttpd.

Btw. You can also register domain names and virtual dedicated servers etc through widecert. I was a opensrs reseller before and am slowly transfering my domains over as they are a lot cheaper.