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StartCom SSL Certificate Reviews

StartCom is an certificate authority that sells SSL certificates. StartCom was established in 2004, and is headquartered in Eilat, Israel. It is well-known for offering free SSL certificates that are domain-validated and supported in most newer web browsers.

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StartCom's Average Rating
4.76 (72 Total Reviews)

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Ben Langers
Review
StartSSK simply rocks!
Tue August 31, 2010
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Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Organization: Solid Networks

I've been a happy user of StartSSL for some time now. Nothing to complain about. Though part was getting a gauge of the support since, well, there aren't many issues to run into...
the occasional issues I encountered were always configuration errors on the server end, and even for those, support helped solve them in a snap. Without a doubt an experienced, dedicated and utterly helpful crew over there! Thanks StartSSL
alain
Review
Rocks
Mon August 30, 2010
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Product Purchased: Class 2 Organization Multiple Domains
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: http://giantdorks.org

I've used a lot of CAs over the years and StartCom is currently my favorite.

More: http://giantdorks.org/alain/excellent-free-ssl-certificates-with-killer-service-to-boot/
hostallstates
Review
The SSL has never been easier
Sun August 22, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: https://secure.hostallstates.com/

This is really a wonderful service StartCom is offering. A Free SSL certificate? Who can bet that? That's not all. They have really smart and helpful people. I just want to give them all the credit about securing my website.
In the beginning I doubt that there is a "FREE" Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate available online. Until now, I can confirm that myself.

I got the best help you can ever imagine from them. Support A+++++++
Tomasz Kosinski
Review
Best value, Best service
Sun August 22, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Extended Validation
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: After several days

So far I used SSL from another well recognize CA. After being frustrated by bad support and very bad upgrade policy I decided to switch to StartSSL. I ordered EV validation which requires some paper work and they were very helpful in a whole certification process. Also you can count on support upon performing some less common tasks like issuing Exchange certificates.
Price is not the only (even not the most important) factor which makes StartSLL a very good deal.
Highly recommended!
ranpha franboise
Review
Re: StartCom SSL Certificate Reviews
Wed August 18, 2010
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Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Immediately

The wizard doesn't support private keys made in cPanel (too weak it says), which made the installation of the certificate in cPanel less straightforward, but once I got the hang of it, everything works just fine.

As a comparison, installing the 90-days COmodo free SSL certificate is far easier, but then again their certificate are not immediate.
Hana Fetrova
Review
Support out of business hours by Skype
Sun August 15, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Identity Wildcard
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

I do some mistake in process, they have good support for payed certificates but also for their free SSL. My mistake was solved during weekend in night hours with their support step by step. Sure, everytime it is problem if you are changing certification authority because you need to learn how to use their web admin. So little problem was that they require IE + Firefox. I use another browser, but if you know it - all is OK.

I strongly suggest startssl for their pesonal support. Thank you Eddy Nigg :)
Anthony
Review
Excellent Free SSL
Sat August 07, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: https://www.aondcrey.com/

I discovered StartCom via the Scour search engine.

StartCom both generated and signed my certificate. I had minor confusion with the password protected private key but support was lightning fast. In less than 10 minutes my server was up again with working SSL.

I'd recommend non profit organizations seeking free ssl to give StartCom a try. You won't be disappointed.
Rainer Typke
Review
Good customer service
Fri July 16, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Extended Validation
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: http://ssl.ibanrechner.de
Organization: Theano GmbH

First of all: the certificates seem to do the trick. Browsers accept them. One of my clients, however, had a SOAP client which did not accept the certificate - still trying to figure out why. He might simply need to add StartSSL to his trusted root CAs.
StartCom's customer service is outstanding. Responses (I tried mail and Skype) come quickly and are given competently.
Saša Stankovi?
Review
Very responsive personel
Thu July 15, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Organization Multiple Domains
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: http://www.cimgrupa.eu
Organization: CIM Grupa d.o.o.

An our ago, I have successfully installed class 2 certificate on our production web server. This was my second attempt and I finish it in no time, with the help from their stuff. The fist time it lasted a little bit longer, but then I've missed to properly include all the subdomains for all domains of our company. When I realized that the certificate works only for our primary domain, I asked for help from their personnel and shortly I was given all the answers I needed. I recommend them. 5* from me...
Alexander Dupuy
Review
best free SSL certificate issuer
Thu July 08, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

You have to do a little bit of work to register with StartCom and get an e-mail/client certificate and StartSSL Open ID, so that you can log in and generate all the certificates you need (no wildcards at the free level) but once you do, the certificate creation process is fairly straightforward.

Best of all, these are fully functional 1-year certificates - not try-and-buy or 90-day like the other issuers out there. The free certs are perfect for intranet webservers where you just want to make sure users don't (have to set up / get in the habit of creating) security exceptions, as you would with the typical self-signed certs, but you don't need the certificates to be particular high-level of trust for external customers/users.
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