SSL certificate and web farm -- How many certs do I need?

From: Jim C (tjnaz2001@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/09/03 

From: "Jim C" <tjnaz2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:11:38 -0800

Hello,

I have a question about SSL certificates in relation to a
web farm.

We have been purchasing one SSL cert, from Verisign, for
each web server in a web farm. This works and does cost
money.

These sites do not generate enough traffic to warrant
purchasing an SSL accelerator which would allow us to buy
just one cert.

I know that you can export and import a certificate among
servers. I've played around with it a few times and
wondered why we're paying $$$$ when we can possibly get
one certificate and apply to all servers in the farm.

So, is it possible to do this?

Thank you,

Jim

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