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		moonlighter on Jan 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't submit to the SSL cert racket. You can get o... Not my experience at all. It's easy and straightforward (really takes less than 10 mins). I have a bunch of startSSL certs in use. Before I started using startSSL certs I used Thawte certs. Dealing with Thawte was HORRIBLE, these guys are extremely pushy (their sales reps repeatedly called me at home to 'convince' me I really should renew my certificates with them and wouldn't take no for an answer). Contrast that with startSSL where I had some questions and Eddy Nigg personally replied within minutes. In summary, I highly recommend giving startSSL a shot.

hmottestad on Jan 15, 2012 | [–]

I also found startSSL to be fine. It's not the most user friendly of websites, but by no means horrible.

I can see why you may want something simpler if you need 10+ certificates, but if you just want to set up SSL for something then startSSL is fine.

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