Yes, some SSL providers (mostly the overpriced ones) like to "license"
their certs on a per-server basis. If you read the contract language,
this is how it's written. However, this is strictly a contractual
issue, not a technical one. It's just a way to squeeze more money out
of people who don't know any better.
Speaking strictly from a technical standpoint, there is nothing at all
stopping you from using the same cert/keys on as many servers as you'd
like. There are SSL providers out there that are reasonable about the
whole thing and sell you a cert, not a single-device-license.
- Pete
On 12/27/2012 2:47 PM, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a
vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this area...
I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a
quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4
domains. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per
physical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single
wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20
servers.
This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the
purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before?
Thanks
Blake
