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Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are lookin
by devhinton 13y ago
Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are looking at this being .071428571 % of total cost. So ummmmm maybe minimize your costs elsewhere :p
- ywyrd 13y agoSome of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.
- devhinton 13y agoYes. That is true. You are right.
- dublinben 13y agoThere's always free certificates like from StartSSL and CACert.
- javert 13y ago$200 a year should be easily affordable under the US welfare system. Many people on welfare (oftentimes it's fraudulent, but government-encouraged, "disability" these days) make more than minimum wage. I am making a US-based comparison since you used the word "federal."
- yeukhon 13y ago$200 certificate for a personal website? That's not necessary. What we need is to stop charging a SSL/TLS certificate so much to get the recommended level of cipher used.
- michaelt 13y agoObviously $200 is cheap compared to a skyscraper or a space station. Compared to the ~$15 a year a .com domain costs, paying 10x that amount for an SSL certificate seems a bit on the high side.
- drchoc 13y agoExactly, if you want a more secure web, you need a system that is affordable to everyone.