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Comment by demoonkevin | Hacker News Reader

The problem about the free Cloudflare SSL certificate is that you share it with a lot of other sites, most of then with "strange" purposes...

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This is a common concern, but in reality, it does not mean anything. "Sharing" your cert with a weird site is similar as taking the same bus route as someone who is bad.

From a security standpoint, there is little to no risk. Worst case scenario one of the other sites is doing something that results in the cert being revoked... and I imagine CloudFlare has a way to just move you (and everyone else) onto another cert seamlessly.

I dunno, it _mostly_ doesn't mean anything, but the day I discovered my site hostname listed next to phishing and porn sites was the day I didn't want to use CloudFlare's free certs anymore. Sure not many people will see the SANs on a cert, and there's nothing wrong with porn using SSL, I just don't want to cobrand with them. :D

So pay for the package that doesn't do that

That would be silly since I now run a competitor — with a free tier that doesn't do that. :D

Hah. I really should read usernames before responding.

I actually know of your competitor (fly.io, right?) and am giving it a test for something I'm working on that needs the hostname support after Cloudflare got me legging it when they said their hostname system was for the Enterprise plan.

That's it! How funny. Send me an email and let me know how it goes: kurt@fly.io

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