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Bulk Discounts to be Discountinued

With affect from 1st June 2012 bulk discounts on SSL certificates will be discontinued. That means there will be no discounts on 10 or more purchases of RapidSSL or QuickSSL Premium certificates from this date.

The discounted pricing will continue but you must sign-up for our official reseller program.

The reseller program will allow you to purchase points for your reseller account. You then spend these points on SSL purchases at further discounted pricing. You can also take advantage of our automated API to manage your orders. The reseller program is free of charge and there is no obligation to make any purchases.

Reseller Dashboard now Available

The Reseller Dashboard is now available. The dashboard allows you to perform order actions via our website rather than the API.

You can order a new certificate, cancel and order, amend the approver email, resend the approver email, check the order status and add more points to your account.

To access the reseller dashboard click here and bookmark the page. You can log in with your existing ServerTastic credentials. You will need to be signed up to the Reseller Program to use the Dashboard.

SagePay Fails to Renew SSL Certificate

So SagePay has made one of the largest errors a payment processor could make. It has failed to renew it’s SSL certificate. Users trying to make payment on merchant websites that used SagePay would have been met by expired certificate warnings.

Technically users could just continue to the website and the connection would still be secure and encrypted. However your average user would most likely have headed off “Back to safety” as the Chrome warning would suggest.

SagePay has some big apologies to make especially given the complaints on twitter.

I do feel a little bit sorry for Amy Monro the PR lady at SagePay. She is doing her best to answer those twitter complaints

However perhaps she needs a little education on SSL certificates. She is claiming the certificate is valid and in date and that this is an admin error. The certificate is clearly not valid! It is possible they have already renewed the SSL certificate and simply failed to replace the existing certificate on their website. If this is the case it is an easy 2 minute fix. However since the problem remains ongoing I suspect nobody has even started the renewal process. In fact I can confirm that nobody must have started the renewal process until after the certificate had expired. If you check the certificate now it was issued on 26 April 2012 01:00 BST.

So a few final tips for SagePay (and anyone else using SSL certificates).

  • SSLs are only valid for a fixed period of time, just like domain registrations.
  • If you renew an SSL you have to replace the current certificate with the new one.
  • You can renew up to 90 days BEFORE your current certificate expires.
  • Buy your SSL from ServerTastic because we could save you loadsa money!

Reseller API Now Available

The ServerTastic Reseller API is now available.

To sign up log in to your ServerTastic Account and then click on the [Reseller Account] link.

You will need to accept the terms and conditions. So we can closely monitor the system in the early stages resellers are currently set-up manually. Therefore there could be a delay before you receive details of your API key.

You can access the Reseller Knowledge Base and Community Forums here (you will need a ServerTastic account to access). This includes API documentation and pricing details.

VeriSign SSL becomes Symantec

This April the VeriSign SSL range of products will be rebranding to Symantec.

Symantec Inc purchased the VeriSign Security Solutions back in 2010. As part of the puchase Symantec has to migrate away from the VeriSign brand name by 2014. Part of this migration involves changing the VeriSign Trust Seal to become the Norton Secure Seal.

If you currently have the VeriSign Secured Seal displayed on your website this will update automatically during April to begin displaying the Norton Secure Seal (powered by VeriSign).

In addition to this VeriSign products will become known as Symantec.

Please check out our support article: VeriSign SSL Becomes Symantec