Hey,
I've been considering buying a 128 bit SSL certificate to offer shared SSL hosting.
The client would benifit from having:
ASP
ASP.NET
PHP
MySQL
MS Access
MS SQL
(All hosted on a Windows Server)
for development purposes. The client would be allowed to access their site either by:
https://client.mydomain.com
https://mydomain.com/client
*OR* a parked domain
and would also have FTP access to their space.
The costs are quite affordable but before I spend $500 - $700 a year on this venture I would like to know how many people would be interested in this type of thing?
Knogle
03-31-2003, 08:51 PM
Shared SSL would be useful to many, but if it's that crucial to sites, they would usually get a dedicated IP and buy a SSL cert of their own. Anyway, it's a good move to offer shared SSL.. be sure to put that down on your package features! :D
DarktidesNET
03-31-2003, 09:31 PM
$700 for an SSL cert ...?
digitok
03-31-2003, 09:46 PM
Pretty expensive :/ You'd only _really_ need it for doing creditcard transactions, etc. Yeah?
DarktidesNET
03-31-2003, 09:54 PM
You don't need it for anything. You don't need a bullet proof vest when you go undercover for the FBI, but chances are it's best to have one ....
digitok
03-31-2003, 09:56 PM
Good point :) I guess sometimes it is better to have it, but it is pretty expensive VeriSign -- $895 for 1 year...
ddent
03-31-2003, 10:21 PM
Wow... It never ceases to shock me that price. My *wildcard* certificates cost less than that!
I'd hate to think what they charge for one of those...
Knogle
03-31-2003, 11:26 PM
Hmm yeah im interested to know. How did you come up with the $500-$700 quotation?
ddent
03-31-2003, 11:45 PM
Oh, I'm not saying he's wrong... I'm just saying I find the price shocking.
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Well I came to the price of $500 - $600 a year is because I would still have to pay for webhosting on a windows box to offer MS SQL & MS Access, as for the SSL certificate this is only one years certificate.
The only way to cut costs on SSL is if I was to use shared SSL my self but that would pretty much suck.
ddent
04-01-2003, 12:25 PM
Oh, you were including that... I see :). Are you sure you need to pay the premium for webhosting on a windows box? Most people these days IMHO are looking for unix (i.e. linux) hosting, and MySQL or PostgreSQL seems to cover needs.
I have all the LiNUX requirements with Darktides.NET (http://darktides.net), which supports SSL and many other things that are useful.
Im just waiting for their Windows boxes to be setup so I can have a better hosting experience.
ddent
04-01-2003, 07:34 PM
Better? Well, to each their own I suppose :).
DarktidesNET
04-01-2003, 07:37 PM
TuX is an ASP freak... he is into Windows hosting more so than Linux, which we do not offer, so I point him here... I see him looking for a Windows/Game server in requests now.
Must be pretty serious about this.
