"spm" <nospam@coco.dot.co.dot.uk> wrote in message
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> Seth wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking fo an SSL cert from a vendor who is fast, good and cheep
>> (in that order)...
>>
>> Any recomendations? (I'd like to get the cert setup by tomorrow if
>> possible).
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -S
>
> There are a few, like GoDaddy, InstantSSL, etc. I believe a GoDaddy
> standard cert is the cheapest (not sure it goes "cheep", though ;-)),
> at under US$20 a year. They're generally fast too - you open an
> account, purchase a cert, create a cert request on your SBS and enter
> the CSR from the request into your GoDaddy certificate management
> panel. The process is automatic, except for a manual check (by GoDaddy)
> of your domain's WHOIS info. This is where some delay *can* happen. For
> us in the UK, Nominet don't always provide full WHOIS lookup, so a
> fallback verification procedure needed to be put in place for us, but
> only after a delay from GoDaddy's side. That said, the whole thing
> still completed in less than 24 hours.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Steve.