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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
4.71 (51 Total Reviews)

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Chris
Review
Best thing since sliced bread
Fri February 26, 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: Immediately

I'm using StartSSL certificates since two years. Started with the free Class 1 ones, then moved on to Class 2 because I needed wildcards.

The support is absolutely fantastic (I think Eddy never sleeps - whenever you send an e-mail, you get a reply within minutes or a few hours, even in the middle of the night). Very professional and helpful as well, and personally taking care of trickier questions as well.

Also, they offer not only Server certs, but also personal identity ones (S/MIME mail) and codesigning certs. And all of that is already included in the "flatrate" price.

Given the absolutely unbeatable price (which seems to have lowered again, now it's $50 for 2 years) for essentially as many wildcard certificates as you want, and the out-of-the-box compatibility with all major browsers, plus all the other goodies, there's nothing more to say except "outstanding".

Absolutely recommended!
Scott Kuhn
Review
Love StartCom's SSL Service!
Tue February 23, 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: Immediately

First experience with StartCom--a non-profit client needed an SSL cert for their mail server. With the economy as it is, especially for non-profits right now, free is very good. Found the service to be fairly straightforward, seamless, and best...it WORKED!
Wiel
Review
Awesome
Tue February 23, 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

Hi,
I was searching for a cheap way to ad SSL certificates for a few OWA sites. Starcom made it possible to achive this in an easy way. So now the warnings are gone when people use the OWA webpage. For this purpose level1 is fine. If I, or U need level2 or higer for other projects i can recommend StarCom.
Great service!

Wiel
Frank
Review
Startcom and the way customer service should be run
Tue February 09, 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: Immediately

New to SSL, I basically stumbled across startcom about 5 mins before i purchased a certificate from Godaddy.
Being new to SSL, I called up their support line and frankly, I was amazed at not only the technical knowlege of the staff but also by their willingness to help, handhold me through the process and how friendly the people there are.

I will never go anywhere else for certificate services. these guys are the best
CarlS
Review
Multiple Domain Wildcard SSL Certificate
Sat January 30, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization 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

We run a number of servers that have their own control panels. In the past we used self-signed SSL certificates to secure communication between the clients and the server. Unfortunately the self-signed SSL certificates generated unwanted support. I went through the validation process and then validated our company. I also validated 4 domains names that we use to access the control panels.

Then I requested a multi-domain wildcard certificate, after some guidance from support.

The certificate was issued, basically instantly and I was able to secure all the servers using the one certificate.

A similar certificate would probably cost me more than $1000, if not more at a competing provider.

The total cost to me less than $80.

Although the financial saving is a huge plus point for StartSSL, I feel that what makes them a serious contender is the fact that their support and assistance to me was unmatched.

I have never been able to communicate with a provider as easy as I have with StartSSL and they are always ready and willing to assist.

I truly hope that this level of dedication and assistance will forever remain.

I am a convert and will be using their services where ever I can.

Thank you StartSSL for really making a difference.
Mark Karpeles
Review
Finally got rid of those over expensive wildcard certificates
Sat January 23, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization 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
Website: http://www.uid.st/
Organization: Tibanne Co., Ltd.

With StartSSL I could finally get rid of those over-expensive wildcard certificate. Even better, with startssl I can create one certificate with multiple wildcards.

Support is also really fast, with the name of the operator replying shown in the "from" line, and the website provide tools mostly useful for internet professionnals.
David Ferrero
Review
StartCom shines for all forms of security certs!
Thu January 21, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
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.zionsoftware.com/
Organization: Zion Software, LLC

StartCom is an excellent source for security certificates. I have used the for several different types of security certificates including basic Web Site SSL, Multi-Domain, E-Mail Class 2 Personal, and Class 2 Code Signing Certificates for Java. The live help available from Eddy Nigg and the gang at help@startcom.org via XMPP is beyond compare!
Gerhard Saumweber
Review
CEO
Tue January 12, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
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: Immediately
Website: https://epimail.mytexpertsinc.com
Organization: Texperts, Inc.

We had to exchange our about to expire certificates within a 2-day window, especially as our wild card certificate is installed with various applications and was about to expire. Only due to Eddy Nigg and his dedicated team working through the weekend were we able to make it happen to prevent major outage for our users. Excellent job Eddy! Thanks so much!!!
Nikolaus Polak
Review
Best price, superb on website and xmpp certificates
Sat January 09, 2010
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Identity Multiple Domains
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: Immediately
Organization: np-Edv

Until I found StartCom SSL, I used CaCert for some mostly personal or community websites and RapidSSL certificates for one bigger project.
In comparison with CaCert the big advantage is that for StartCom SSL certificates my users doesn't need to install manually their root certificate :-)
And in comparison with RapidSSL its much cheaper, and for me it was also easier.
nicosoftmedia
Review
The best free SSL Cert who I ever seen.
Thu January 07, 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: After a few hours
Website: http://www.nicosoftmedia.com

I say thank you very much to StartCom who provide free SSL Cert for my company.

Actually, At the beginning I have confuse a little to request at them. but, in fact the request so easy and I can set to my domain with quickly.

With the SSL tools in sslshopper.com I can see my SSL cert has working properly.

Thanks to sshshopper.com too :).
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