Until January, 2005
I still feel a little ripped off because I wasn’t able to get the SSL cert for $25, but the nice side effect of still going with Geotrust anyway was that I was able to get an extra month, so no more of this renewing the day after x-mess shit again. The new process is a bit different than what I’d gone through last year, now you have to receive an automated phone call and enter this code they give you during the ’signup’ procedure. OH well, at least it’s all taken care of, switching the Apache & CPanel certs was a fairly painless process.
I was really tempted to save $30 and go with ‘chained SSL’ but, err, it just seemed too cheap.. the Geotrust certs are on the Equifax root, and they’re rather well known, I suppose, and even though I don’t accept CC information directly as of now, perhaps sometime in 2004 I will, so it sort of made sense to just renew, although as I mentioned, renewing directly with Geotrust through their partner program was more than twice as much as going through ev1, kinda pathetic really, but you do what you have to.