[olug] Web Site Certificates - OT

[Obi-Wan]

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
>> With a single wildcard certificate for $199 you can protect* all
>> hostnames under your domain (*.yourdomain.com). You can invent as
>> many hostnames as you want on the fly and install the same cert
>> across as many servers as you want.
> 
> Just a note, RapidSSL's 'license agreement' actually prohibits
> installing the wildcard certs on multiple machines, unless you buy
> additional 'licenses' for it:

Yes, but you can install such a cert on a single reverse proxy box
(like Pound or Squid) that then feeds to any number of back-end servers
that run the actual web sites.  That's what we do at work.  We use a
GoDaddy wildcard cert, BTW, even though I don't like their ads.

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