[devhinton]

Maybe I'm ignorant but $200 a year is not that much money. Considering a software engineer is usually paid 70k a year and you have four engineers you are looking at this being .071428571 % of total cost. So ummmmm maybe minimize your costs elsewhere :p

[michaelt]

Obviously $200 is cheap compared to a skyscraper or a space station.

Compared to the ~$15 a year a .com domain costs, paying 10x that amount for an SSL certificate seems a bit on the high side.

[drchoc]

Exactly, if you want a more secure web, you need a system that is affordable to everyone.

[_mvuc]

Some of us live under the federal poverty level, where any sum of double digits or more is significant.

[yeukhon]

$200 certificate for a personal website? That's not necessary. What we need is to stop charging a SSL/TLS certificate so much to get the recommended level of cipher used.

[javert]

$200 a year should be easily affordable under the US welfare system. Many people on welfare (oftentimes it's fraudulent, but government-encouraged, "disability" these days) make more than minimum wage.

I am making a US-based comparison since you used the word "federal."

[dublinben]

There's always free certificates like from StartSSL and CACert.

[devhinton]

Yes. That is true. You are right.