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The $600/month becomes pretty reasonable when you understand what's going on behind the scenes. There are 53 CloudFront edge locations, each of which needs to reserve at least one IP address for your SSL cert's exclusive use.


As opposed to CloudFlare providing an SSL certificate for each IP and adding your domain name to the SAN list for $20 a month.

That seems like a better option as a fallback when SNI is not available.


There are downsides to that approach, like when TedCruz.org shared an SSL with nigerian-prince.com for their donation page.




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