Hello

I was wondering if the majority of the companies offering Reseller accounts, included a ssl cert for each reseller?

Or do you use a shared cert ?


Maybe for Resellers willing to pay yearly it might be worth it to provide them with their own.


What are your thoughts?

To provide a cert for each reseller would be a $50.00 per client cost. Most WHT hosts especially can't afford to drop a $50 yearly investment on each client, unless they add it into their costs. If they add it into their costs, they might as well just let you buy your own cert :)

I was thinking the 19.95 Chained SSL EV1 is offerring.

CaCert is free and we are instaling it as default - it has accepted/accepted by all type pf browser too.
It has not any differs then ChainedSSL too - both of them are shared at the end as most of the SSL Keys.

the Private ones are too expensive about 400$/Yr.

We provide access to a shared SSL, one of the main reasons many hosts won't provide this is because it would require a dedicated IP for each reseller.

Regards,
Keiron

Originally posted by BWS
We provide access to a shared SSL, one of the main reasons many hosts won't provide this is because it would require a dedicated IP for each reseller.

Regards,
Keiron
Not entirely true ;)

One of the main reasons hosts won't provide it, is because it's one of the biggest security holes in the industry.

If a customer wants SSL, they need to be the one that signs for it, and the one that the buck stops with.

I am quite sure I wouldn't want my company name put in jeopardy by any one of thousands of users, using a shared SSL cert that has our tag on it.

Certs can be obtained, in bulk, from Comodo at as little as $25 per InstantSSL cert, and InstantSSL Pro at as little as $30. I know I felt better signing a check to Comodo for a few thousand dollars, rather than wondering when "Joe Bloggs" was going to put up a fraudulent site, using our name as his guarantor.

IP addresses are a-plenty, most companies have at least one class C (we have 5), so the reasoning behind not offering shared SSL, certainly isn't a lack of IP addresses.

Simon

Originally posted by BWS
We provide access to a shared SSL, one of the main reasons many hosts won't provide this is because it would require a dedicated IP for each reseller.

Regards,
Keiron

Hosts should give each reseller at least 1 dedicated IP anyway, we give each one two, one for each nameserver. :)

I did say it was one of the reasons ;-)

Most of my resellers are quite happy with shared IP's for nameservers, if any want an IP and cert we'll organise it for them.

I do plan to offer a cert with some of the products I plan to launch later this year.

Regards,
Keiron

Originally posted by dolay
CaCert is free and we are instaling it as default - it has accepted/accepted by all type pf browser too.
It has not any differs then ChainedSSL too - both of them are shared at the end as most of the SSL Keys.

the Private ones are too expensive about 400$/Yr.

What is this CaCert, can you throw some more light?