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engineer2 <engineer2@the.lab> writes:
>On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:30:24 +0000, Chris Caputo wrote:
>> Do folks think it would be a useful thing if Altopia provided SSL access
>> at no additional cost?...
>
>The last time I checked, the NSP's who were offering SSL were charging 
>extra for it, and quite a bit.  I thought at the time that they had no 
>real reason for charging extra, but of course I'm not an NSP.
>
>How much extra cost would you incur for offering SSL access?  If little 
>or none, then why not just offer it by default?  If it's not trivial, 
>then where do the extra costs come from?

If Altopia offering SSL at no additional cost results in even just a few 
hundred additional customers, that would quickly pay for additional CPU 
horsepower.  Dual-proc quad-core servers are pretty darn cheap these days.

Regarding comments in other messages about the SSL cert, in a beta test we 
are simply using our web SSL cert and it is working fine.

Now that we've got our multi-part retention up to a sane level (8+ days) 
and text above 300 days, I'm finding it hard to not offer SSL at no 
additional cost, as the logical next step.

So how about it, would you sign up with Altopia if we added this perk?  
Our base offering is $6 per month, throttled but with unlimited 
usage/access.

Chris Caputo
President, Altopia Corporation