[cobalt-users] Shared SSL on Cobalt RaQ4

[Christopher Simmons <cs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice to see all the replies to my query.

I agree on the issue of IP vs. non-IP, and ideally it is nice for
everyone to have their own SSL cert.

My need for this is twofold: one, I am moving a number of resold hosting
customers from a crappy, evil hosting reseller ("CT"), where I have
numerous clients with SSL installed via their own cert.

Now, unfortunately, when you move a domain to a new box, you have to
regenerate keys, challenge, and cert for each domain. This requires
re-issuance of the SSL cert via Thawte (etc.), which is $100 at the
partner rate. I  can't ask certain customers who have low-end shopping
carts to cough up an extra $100 just for the pleasure of my moving them
to my nice cozy new RaQ hosting solution.

The high-end customers have carts which only support dedicated
domain-based SSL via the port, so those folks have to pay the $100 in
the move.

Also, it's a nice selling point as a web developer who does hosting
(both since March of 1995, design and marketing since 1983) to be able
to offer an e-commerce solution inexpensively with a free SSL option as
part of a hosting plan.

So...I still need to review the nice comments/directions provided in
response to my original message. I may offer to pay somebody here to
make the changes.

This list has been very helpful in its first week since I discovered it.
Thanks everybody!

Christopher

Mindset, founded 1983.