Hi,

I've been doing some research on the board and I'm pretty sure I'm going with EV1's SSL Certificate for my store (The $49.00 that's normally $149). My question is, will this be the price every year? Or if not, can I simply go with someone else if I get a better deal? Like I said, I'm still learning. I'm just curious of the long term cost if anyone can offer any advice.

Thank you

Yes, you can change your SSL certs to another provider later. The $49 price has remained $49 for ages - probably won't go up anytime soon.
I believe they were even cheaper a while back.

Even if they do raise the price, Comodo's InstantSSL (http://www.instantssl.com/) also has $49 certs.....

If you are on the budget conscious side, you might want to take a look at StarterSSL. Its slightly cheaper than InstantSSL or QuickSSL.

I would agree with jasonkw. Their price for the geotrust has been $49 for quite sometime.

Their StarterSSL is anywhere from $4.95 - $9.95. We have a lot of customers using the StarterSSL with no problems. Plus I think they are also owned by Geotrust as well.

Thank you for all the info. I went with CompleteSSL instead, not sure if was the best decision, but so far so good. :) I read a lot of good things about EV, but the site didn't offer a package deal, that I could find anyway. Anyway, thanks again.

Originally posted by bluecat
Thank you for all the info. I went with CompleteSSL instead, not sure if was the best decision, but so far so good. :) I read a lot of good things about EV, but the site didn't offer a package deal, that I could find anyway. Anyway, thanks again.

First off I'd like to say thank you for the business. I can't help but be intrigued, would you mind providing more detail on why it might not have been the best decision.

If there is something that I can do to help with anything please let me know.

SSL certificates have been getting cheaper and cheaper over the years as many new competitors come into the scene. I always recommend to my customers that they only purchase a certficate for a term of 1 year, that way they have the possibility of finding a better deal then what they currently have when a year comes around.

I would imagine that whatever certificate you purchase now would cost the same or less when you renew with the same provider-- they are interested in keeping their customers and not losing you to competitors.

Use EV1. Their certificate is recognized by many browsers and their proce is fixed year to year. Newly added certificates like from Godaddy are new for most browsers and your customers will get error that CA is unknown. And you will lose some clients because of it.

Is there some type of a list, which sertificates are known to browsers from the beginning.
I mean for example a fresh install of Windows XP - which sertificates explorer will accept without error messages?

Originally posted by AR7777
Is there some type of a list, which sertificates are known to browsers from the beginning.
I mean for example a fresh install of Windows XP - which sertificates explorer will accept without error messages?

I do not know of a compiled list that contains this information, but you can be pretty sure that any commerical ssl certificate will be trusted by Windows XP (ie 6) without a problem.

Strictly regarding browser compatability the more important question would be which certificates are trusted by older and less common browsers.

Thanks.
So as I'm not using CC payment and need the SSL only to establish a secure connection to the server I can go for any of the less expensive (looks like ~$50/year) and be happy :)

GoDaddy is offering $29.95 certs. You might want to look at them.