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by flurdy 3818 days ago
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.

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