Choosing an SSL Provider?

An anonymous reader writes "I have recently been tasked with switching our SSL certificate provider and it's proving not to be easy. We use an internal authority for our own stuff and then we buy certificates to protect outward-facing sites (a lot of them). My question for this community is: How do you choose a certificate authority to use? There is price, service (why we're leaving our last vendor), warranty, and products offered as the only differentiators I can find. Is there any public resource that would show me actual customer reviews of CAs like Verisign, GeoTrust, Comodo, Trustwave, and DigiCert? Our last vendor did a really poor job with support and I would like to make a reasonably educated decision."

Simply use a lock favicon for your website

[Anonymous Coward]

Look at the "/." just before the http in your location bar. Just turn it into a lock icon for your website.

Godaddy

[StealthyRoid]

I've had reasonably good experiences with Godaddy, and as far as I know, they're one of the cheapest around. SSL cert signing is mostly just snake oil anyway. It's not like the company signing your cert for you has any impact on the actual security of your site, and I can't imagine that many customers look at the cert signer and go "RapidSSL? No way! Fuck those guys! I'm gonna go spend my money at some other dildo store". So, your best bet is to go with the cheapest one around that's likely to be in all the major browsers' trusted CA list.