Hello,
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 04:01:16PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Thanks for the replies so far. Here's a summary:
Vendor | 2-year price | Per-year price | SSL certificate
| (ex VAT) | @ 2 years | Authority
----------+--------------+----------------+----------------
Namecheap | £128.77 | £64.39 | Comodo
SSL Shop | £103.91¹ | £51.96 | RapidSSL
It was between these two in the end.
I was going to go with Namecheap because I knew more people had used
them and I thought it was going to be a GBP transaction, but I
changed my mind and used SSL Shop because:
- When I got to checkout with Namecheap it was going to be a credit
card transaction in USD anyway, the same as SSL Shop. They'd just
been presenting me prices in GBP up until then.
- Staying with RapidSSL meant I could get a renewal and they would
give a free month, unlike if I switched to Comodo. So I got 25
months.
However, it ended up costing $190 which is ~ £125 and then there
will be a charge on top for doing a USD transaction, so there
isn't much in it if you don't care about the renewal bit.
The provisioning process with Trustico is much smoother - they
generate a CSR for you and you only leave their site at the very end
to do the domain validation. I'm not paying more than twice as much
for that though.
Thanks for the pointers!
Cheers,
Andy
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