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Who is best SSL certificate provider ? which SSL certificate should be used ?
Who is best SSL certificate provider ? which SSL certificate should be used ?
Who is best SSL certificate provider ? which SSL certificate should be used ?
Who is best SSL certificate provider ? which SSL certificate should be used ?
1. It just like shopping for hosting, a car, or even a hospital to get care from. You should look for reviews and so on to see who make the "cuts" you are looking for.
2. Now of days it seems to me that...
DV (Domain Validated):free providers like Let's Encrypt or Comdo Positive will cut the mustard. As they tend to have the similar "popularity", protection, and/or etc.
OV (Organization Validated): These are worth paying for IF your wishing to "prove" that you are the organization you are. Personally these are probably better for like non profits or companies that handle more sensitive purchases like jewelry, computer systems, and/or etc. As these customers will (hopefully) likely look for PROOFS that if they paying hundreds literally over Ethernet it's going to a solid standing brand/good cause.
EV (Extended Validated): It's the most expensive and for a reason... It's requires up to a few weeks of validation as you actually has to phone in and so on. Thankfully most of us won't NEED it as we are not banks or places like Paypal. Or even larger shops like Amazon. As long as your not processing like over 250k USD/year I don't believe you are required to have one in order be "compliance". As a DV would works until/if you reach such a bracket.
In theory every SSL cert is same and the level of encryption is the only thing that matters. The rest is just for customers perception which the SSL providers created over the years which is brand value.
I will say use letsencrypt as those are free ones and move to paid ones only for those who needs it for customers or any other purpose.
I would say one of the best at the moment are Comodo SSL, it is highly affordable, has great customer support, only thing to dislike is the validation that can take some time if the information required for Comodo SSL to complete the checking process isn’t available online.
Also RapidSSL, is great aswel, also offering great prices, free support is provided 24/7 by web and email, and installation tools are part of the package at no additional costs.
Free ones DONT provide validation which you get when you get a paid SSL cert in the form of an SSL badge which when clicked validates the SSL is correct and valid.
Even then not all certificates even provides this. Some are static only for example and so on.
Useful information, you can check the types of SSL - DV, OV and EV. choose your preferred SSL to secure your site1. It just like shopping for hosting, a car, or even a hospital to get care from. You should look for reviews and so on to see who make the "cuts" you are looking for.
2. Now of days it seems to me that...
DV (Domain Validated):free providers like Let's Encrypt or Comdo Positive will cut the mustard. As they tend to have the similar "popularity", protection, and/or etc.
OV (Organization Validated): These are worth paying for IF your wishing to "prove" that you are the organization you are. Personally these are probably better for like non profits or companies that handle more sensitive purchases like jewelry, computer systems, and/or etc. As these customers will (hopefully) likely look for PROOFS that if they paying hundreds literally over Ethernet it's going to a solid standing brand/good cause.
EV (Extended Validated): It's the most expensive and for a reason... It's requires up to a few weeks of validation as you actually has to phone in and so on. Thankfully most of us won't NEED it as we are not banks or places like Paypal. Or even larger shops like Amazon. As long as your not processing like over 250k USD/year I don't believe you are required to have one in order be "compliance". As a DV would works until/if you reach such a bracket.
A lot of Java heavy sites usually has SSL implemented on heir sites.