[ale] SSL Certs for $14.95

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Apr 6 09:59:34 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 09:54 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> The only thing the cert with a real servername does (instead of an IP
> address) is it makes it possible to transfer the web server to a new
> hosting environment and just copy over the cert. As long as the server
> name is the same, all is good.  In the case of my guy with the IP
> address, he changed ISP and thus got a new IP address for his server.
> That required him to buy a new cert.

Left out the best use for using a server name that is NOT an IP address:
server clusters. 

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