SSL Options
We can provide you with the following SSL options (see below for descriptions):
| Initial cost | Yearly renewal fee | |
|---|---|---|
| Shared SSL | $25 | Free |
| Standard SSL | $220 | $120 |
| Wildcard SSL | $360 | $260 |
| Customer provided SSL | $110 | $60 |
Shared SSL
This is a certificate issued for *.joyent.us, which is ‘free’ for you. A dedicated IP is not needed but there is a $25 setup fee involved. The shared certificate will cover any hostname, but there are few issues you should be aware of:
- When accessed over HTTPS with a shared certificate, your site will always show a warning to visitors, because it was issued for ‘*.joyent.us’ only, not the domain you would be using it for. Hence it’s primarily useful for protecting a non-public facing site.
- Any SVN operations going over SSL, which are based on COPY (e.g. branching, tagging) will not work with a shared certificate.
- Any application running on such setup (e.g. PHP scripts, Rails/Mongrel) will not be able to sense the originating protocol properly (technically speaking: you’re not getting a separate Apache listener for HTTPS). This makes it pretty much a blind protection: it does protect your site, but any code or scripts you have will not be able to see whether the request came over HTTP or HTTPS. This rules out any smart redirects too.
Standard SSL
This setup covers a single FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain name) at $60/year. A dedicated IP is needed at $60/year and a $100 total setup fee is involved. The standard (non-wildcard) certificate will protect a single hostname only (e.g. domain.com, www.domain.net or secure.domain.org).
The standard certificate will be signed by RapidSSL, which is a GeoTrust brand. See more information on the RapidSSL certificate page on the issuer site.
Wildcard SSL
This setup covers all subdomains in a single domain at $200/year. A dedicated IP is needed at $60/year and a $100 setup fee is involved. A wildcard certificate will protect a full range of subdomains (e.g. if issued for *.domain.com, it would protect www.domain.com, secure.domain.com, anything.domain.com, etc. - but not domain.com itself). The wildcard certificate will be signed by RapidSSL, which is a GeoTrust brand. See more information on the RapidSSL Wildcard certificate page on the issuer site.
Customer provided SSL
You can provide us with your own certificate (either purchased elsewhere, or self-signed), in which case only the dedicated IP cost applies ($60/year) plus half the setup fee ($50).
