Hi I'm chris, the creator of sslping.
Actually, we're talking "small" amounts. I had 3 dedicated servers hosted in France, which is cheap compared to the USA for dedicated servers. I was paying 65€ per month, for 5 years.
How could testing SSL use that much? well, I wanted an HA mongodb setup, and I wanted to support millions of servers. SSLPing was super fast, around 5 seconds to check your SSL versions, cyphers, check some vulnerabilities, etc... when SSLLabs takes 2 minutes.
And yes, despite 1100 total signups in my database, I had only 3 patreons... The maximum I had was 5.
The web is a strange place. I'm looking into sslping very differently today. Yesterday I killed it, and received tens of emails from users to thank me, and today I'm on the first page of HN... because I killed my project.
Do I have to say that I didn't dare ask people to pay for sslping because I thought is wasn't worth it?
Actually, we're talking "small" amounts. I had 3 dedicated servers hosted in France, which is cheap compared to the USA for dedicated servers. I was paying 65€ per month, for 5 years.
How could testing SSL use that much? well, I wanted an HA mongodb setup, and I wanted to support millions of servers. SSLPing was super fast, around 5 seconds to check your SSL versions, cyphers, check some vulnerabilities, etc... when SSLLabs takes 2 minutes.
And yes, despite 1100 total signups in my database, I had only 3 patreons... The maximum I had was 5.
The web is a strange place. I'm looking into sslping very differently today. Yesterday I killed it, and received tens of emails from users to thank me, and today I'm on the first page of HN... because I killed my project.
Do I have to say that I didn't dare ask people to pay for sslping because I thought is wasn't worth it?