Does it really matter where I get my SSL Certificate from? We're setting up a new site that we'd like to use a secure login for.

The site will be quite large and have a LOT of traffic, it will eventually accept forms of payment, but we just want to use SSL for secure logins right now.

Is there any "Best" SSL Vendor? What are the advantages of going with something like Verisign over GoDaddy?

Thanks in advance for your help!
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Edit: On a side note, I'm not looking for any soliciting, please do not PM me or IM me telling me about your uber-low prices on SSL Certificates.

Verisign is the only certificate that will work with 100% of browers and its just the really old ones that won't work with a godaddy one. If your doing ecommerce and want the best possible appearence go with Verisign it might pay for itself, otherwise just get a high assurance cert. If you just need a ssl encrypted connection no identity validation go for the cheapest thing you can find.

I'm looking at Thawte and GoDaddy right now. I can't seem to figure out if Thawt's certificates offer multiple subdomains? It appears as if GoDaddy charges extra to cover that.

http://www.ev1servers.net/hosting/ssl/starterssl_details.asp

If you want wildcard or just cheap certs http://www.litessl.com/ssl/pricing.html is the place to go.

You should question the super-low certificate prices. What exactly are they intended for? Read the fine print and you will be surprised of what you find!

VeriSign is expensive but is well trusted with pretty much all entities, including the US government, which requires you to have one VeriSign SSL cert installed if you are going to do business with them!

Thawte is nice, used to be part of VeriSign so they're the cheaper alternative to VeriSign. But they are still pricey for the average nickle and dime users.

GeoTrust is the alternative to Thawte and is considered to be a good alternative. They're also trusted pretty much all around but not with the NS 4 users. Well that would be my grandfather.

RapidSSL is part of GeoTrust so a cheap alternative to GeoTrust.

InstantSSL is part of Comodo it is definitely for the e-commerce users that want to put a site up right that minute... fast-in, fast-out :)

You should question the super-low certificate prices. What exactly are they intended for? Read the fine print and you will be surprised of what you find!

VeriSign is expensive but is well trusted with pretty much all entities, including the US government, which requires you to have one VeriSign SSL cert installed if you are going to do business with them!

Thawte is nice, used to be part of VeriSign so they're the cheaper alternative to VeriSign. But they are still pricey for the average nickle and dime users.

GeoTrust is the alternative to Thawte and is considered to be a good alternative. They're also trusted pretty much all around but not with the NS 4 users. Well that would be my grandfather.

RapidSSL is part of GeoTrust so a cheap alternative to GeoTrust.

InstantSSL is part of Comodo it is definitely for the e-commerce users that want to put a site up right that minute... fast-in, fast-out :)

RapidSSL offer great affordable SSL certs!

I highly recommend them. :)

Security-wise they're all pretty much the same. Rather, the price reflects the trust they inspire (e.g. Verisign > GeoTrust > RapidSSL).

Another thing to look into when choosing a ssl certificate provider is whether or not they will issue replacement certificates or not during the validity term of the cert. This can come in handy should the certificate and/or private key be lost and the certificate need to be re-installed following a server move or disk crash.