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Basic SSL Certificate Questions


  • GoDaddy SSL certificates are cheap and are great for any small to medium size business endeavor.
  • Get the organization validation options if you are doing millions of dollars a year in transactions. IMO it's not that important or critical as a buyer
  • Standard SSL will allow you to do secure.yourdomain.com OR www.yourdomain.com OR some single domain name. Get a wildcard if you plan on doing more like client1.yourdomain.com or client2.yourdomain.com
  • Warranty / Insurance - no need
  • As for Azure here is a step by step process for doing your Azure SSL certificate

The low cost GoDaddy certificates work fine for 99.9% scenarios and they are like $20 to $30 dollars versus $300+


Biggest thing is to ensure you can get the format in PFX. I purchased mine from RapidSSL and unfortunately it has been the biggest pain getting it to a PFX file. Don't go through the hours wasted like I had to.