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Why o why do you charge almost ten times for wildcard certs? A wildcard cert is technically identical to non-wildcard certs - only one single parameter is different.

Is it, because you re-sell?

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Yes, we do resell and that's just how certificate authorities price things.

If you have fewer than 10 hostnames to secure, definitely go with individual certs and use SNI instead of a wildcard cert. Support for SNI is quite widespread now, and SSLMate makes managing lots of certs easy.

then you are dealing with the wrong resellers! I can buy a wildcard SSL for $64 RETAIL

https://www.gogetssl.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates/

(these guys also have a reseller program but I don't know what that price is)

Yeah, it sounds like they're in a direct relationship with the CA which only works when you have $10k+ to front for reasonable rates.

Thank you, I will check your rates next time I need to renew my certs for sure!

StartSSL will give you unlimited certs, including wildcard certs for $60/year.

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