Dedicated SSL Certificate

[Ryois]

On the domain linustechtips.com they use Cloudflare to protect data and provide the https to protect logins and the store. When browsing the SSL certificate the forums use its a standard certificate that is shared across many other domains.  Through Cloudflare its only 5$/mo for linustechtips.com and *.linustechtips.com or 10$/mo for linustechtips.com and *.linustechtips.com and 50 other domains and wildcards. There are other ways too like Lets Encrypt and more expensive options. This will also for the certificate to show a common name of LTT and the organization to be under Linus Media Group.

[colonel_mortis]

 We used to have a custom certificate, which was at some point reset to the default Cloudflare certificate and it made absolutely no difference to anything, so we had no particular desire to change it back.

In firefox, the only way that there would be to tell that there is a difference is to click 4 buttons (padlock, >, more information, view certificate), while in Chrome the certificate details are only accessible through the dev tools. There's really no benefit to anyone (except cloudflare for the extra money) of using a dedicated certificate over the Cloudflare provided ones.

[AlTech]

17 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

 We used to have a custom certificate, which was at some point reset to the default Cloudflare certificate and it made absolutely no difference to anything, so we had no particular desire to change it back.

Oh...

 

Thought you were using an SSL Certificate provided by one of IPS' partners.

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In firefox, the only way that there would be to tell that there is a difference is to click 4 buttons (padlock, >, more information, view certificate), while in Chrome the certificate details are only accessible through the dev tools. There's really no benefit to anyone (except cloudflare for the extra money) of using a dedicated certificate over the Cloudflare provided ones.

kk

Edited October 23, 2017 by AluminiumTech
Cleared up stuff

[Blade of Grass]

7 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Oh...

 

Thought you were using a certificate from IPS.

kk

IPS isn't a Certificate Authority and thus cannot issue certificates. 

[AlTech]

10 minutes ago, Blade of Grass said:

IPS isn't a Certificate Authority and thus cannot issue certificates. 

IPS has a contract with certificate authorities and thus you can pay IPS to get an SSL certificate on an IPS based forum.

 

I've recently tried this out....

 

 

In my case, Amazon is the certificate authority.  I've never dealt with Amazon's web products and IPS was the one that dealt with them. I paid IPS a fee and a few days later it was all good.

[colonel_mortis]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

IPS has a contract with certificate authorities and thus you can pay IPS to get an SSL certificate on an IPS based forum.

 

I've recently tried this out....

 

 

 

In my case, Amazon is the certificate authority.  I've never dealt with Amazon's web products and IPS was the one that dealt with them. I paid IPS a fee and a few days later it was all good.

Only if you are using IPS Community in the Cloud (which is hosted on AWS so they just send a request to Amazon to generate a new cert), which we are not. But yes, they do handle it all for you (for a slightly excessive cost IMO given that they don't cost anything extra to IPS).