Would be more awesome if they offered free certificates and an API to renew them.
Right now enabling https is not a one-time investment, since a new certificate has to be requested and installed each time the old one expires.
Computers are supposed to bring down cost and automate tedious tasks, for https the opposite is the case.
It’s worth mentioning that https://www.startssl.com/ does offer free certificates. But without a paid account they last only a year and cannot be issued to wildcard domains, so you quickly end up with a lot of certificates that has to be manually renewed each year.
Many "free" certificate services don't give reissued certificates for free, though, so if something like Heartbleed happens again, you might still pay a fee.
Right now enabling https is not a one-time investment, since a new certificate has to be requested and installed each time the old one expires.
Computers are supposed to bring down cost and automate tedious tasks, for https the opposite is the case.
It’s worth mentioning that https://www.startssl.com/ does offer free certificates. But without a paid account they last only a year and cannot be issued to wildcard domains, so you quickly end up with a lot of certificates that has to be manually renewed each year.