[funkyy]

The bill looks huge. You can get SSL for like $8/year from reseller for one of the Symantec ones.

I think that starting startup can cut a lot of corners by using open source resources and cheap cloud servers like DO.

[hackerboos]

You can get SSL for free: https://letsencrypt.org/

[funkyy]

Yeah, I compared his paid to other paid. afaik not all companies are OK to use free SSL since it seems it is still a novelty.

[smackfu]

As of Dec 2015, and the app beta started in Sep 2014.

[flurdy]

I think people are misunderstanding the SSL costs for Cusion.

The SSL certificate expense is listed as $99/year from namecheap, ie. $8.25/month, so there seems no need to get a Symantec one.

However they/it/he are paying Heroku $20/month for handling the SSL traffic, not the certificate itself, which probably includes running a load balancing server in front of their apps that automate the SSL termination across nodes. Which seems like a fair cost to me.

I think the description of this cost is the error which causes the confusion.

[funkyy]

$99/year vs $8/year for 5 minutes job sounds like a good saving at least for me.