Re: [cobalt-users] SSL Question

[Dr P Dowrick <sales@xxxxxxxxx>]

We also offer free SSL. But it's using our certificate. i.e. when you look
up the owner you get phage not the customer.

This is a good compromise for low traffic eCommerce sites that need to keep
running costs down.

Paul 
Phage ISP
http://www.phage.com
01508 489 584



on 17/5/01 1:25 am, Michael Tubbe at mtubbe@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> I am a bit confused as to how so many hosting providers offer
>> free SSL with
>> their hosting accounts.  With SSL costing at least $125 through
>> thawtee, how
>> in the world can they afford that.  Is there some sort of shared SSL
>> certificate that one can purchase in order to use them on various
>> sites on a
>> raq or something?
> 
> There are different types of SSL certs (single sites, groups of sites, etc).
> Also, your ISP might be giving you the use of a page on their site --
> something like http://secure.yourpovider.com/youdomain/
> 
> Check the details your provider has.  Also check http://www.thawte.com /
> http://www.equifaxsecure.com/digitalcertificates/index.html for examples of
> different types of certs.
> 
> Michael Tubbe
> Chanticleer Complete Internet Inc
> 
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