Hi Nelson, Nelson B wrote:
LOL...you mean todays hosting providers are providing support to 40% of their clients already? ;-)No, I mean that today, very few hosting providers provide any SSL server support at all, or do so only at greatly increased cost related to assigning a fixed IP address, due to the perception that fixed IP addresses are still required for https.
Right.
I don't know of ANY hosting providers that even attempt to use certs that include an amalgamation of served host names. Consequently there are very few, almost no, https servers (~ 0%) operated by hosting providers today.
A little bit pessimistic ;-)
I think the problem is not on the server side really, but on the client side! As a hosting provider you can't provide a solution which works for only 40% of the client software - at least you can't charge for it...Once most clients support this protocol, than it will be adapted very fast by the hosting providers since it results in savings for both the provider and the customer. But for now I guess this is not the case...However hosting companies could provide SNI support for the ones who aren't concerned about it, to the others on dedicated IPs.If servers began to support SNI, and hosting providers allowed their customers to provide certs for their individual virtual servers without the cost of a fixed IP address, then, even if only 40% of the browser users were able to make use of it, that would be ~40% more users able to access https pages hosted by hosting providers than are available today.
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