Certificates for your Web 2.0 app 4
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.
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Damn, I was going to get one for my app but it’s not a web 2.0 app, so I guess your certs won’t be compatible.
I have only recently started to research SSL certification. I am currently wondering about : http://cert.startcom.org/
It seems like it is a valid authority delivering free certs. However it is not in Mozilla/IE authorized CA, otherwise it would be a great alternative wouldn’t it ?
Jean, For free certs I would recommend CA Cert who are doing a good job at creating a free trustworthy CA. It has been an uphill battle for them though but it looks like little by little they are being included in more places.
I wish all browsers would include them, because then there would be no more need to buy certificates and people would have little excuses left to not use SSL by default.
Hani, I’m flatered that the famous bile blog comments on my site. ;-)