Hello,

What are the geotrust.com quickssl certificates like and can they be setup on a rackshack server to be shared by all users? I'd like to know about this asap as I'll order it today.

I'd like an option like most hosting companies that have a secure server setup to share or they can buy their own certificate. Kind of like readyhosting.com which lets them use their own SSL certificate instead of buying their own.

Please reply asap!

Thanks,
Mark Boisvert

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like a Wildcard SSL cert

With a wildcart cert, each subdomain would have it's own cert. These can also be configured to allow each domain on a server to have their own cert - however they are very expensive - several thousand dollars for this level of wildcard support.

With an SSL cert, you would be able to let your customers use your cert with URLs like https://yourdomain/~theirname

Does this help? I still don't really understand the question.

-t

I want to be able to get one certificate and use it on all my sites.

Originally posted by optix
I want to be able to get one certificate and use it on all my sites.
I still have the same questions.

A cert is generally issued for one particular host on one particular domain, with a unique IP address. This might be for secure.yourdomain.com.

You can let other accounts on your server use that cert by configuring Apache (or whatever web server you are running) to support aliases in the form of https://secure.yourdomain.com/~username and pointing these to a directory in your user's path. This will let everyone on your server use your cert.

You can also do this for different hosts and even different domains, with a wildcard cert. These are very expensive however - and are rarely cost effective. One form of wildcard cert will secure everything at https://*.yourdomain.com. You would most likely negotiate this directly with the certificate authority - no reseller is going to have an easy way to issue this for you. They are generally more than $99 per host or domain however, so you might be better off simply purchasing and installing individual certs for your customers who want to use their own domain in their SSL transactions.

Good luck,

-t

Heya optix,

Bear in mind that if you buy a certificate for your domain name and use it on your customers' websites their details are not verified and you can be the fall guy if something goes wrong...

Most webhosts do use a shared certificate scheme, but if you become a re-seller of certs then you can charge a fee for offering clients SSL (with their details in the cert) on top of the cert fee.

One cert on all sites is easy to do though, and the decision rests on you. :confused:

Cheers,