StartSSL is very much "you get what you pay for", though. Their web interface is sporadically unreachable, and their validation is rather sloppy – as long as you pay up, you can happily break their terms of service and still be re-validated.

Multiple name certificates are included in that too, which is handy if you have several distinct domain names, limited IPv4 addresses, are worried about ancient browsers that don't support SNI. I have a single certificate that covers a couple of domains that way. Saves on admin too (though could be a pain if the PK were ever compromised as every service would need to be updated - if you have separate certs for everything and one is compromised you don't have that complication).

Can you link to this? I wasn't able to find info about this fixed yearly fee plan on their site.