We were planning on using RapidSSL certificates for our CAS and CAM failover bundles, but we noticed the following when we went to order the certificate:

"By default, this certificate is licensed for one server. If this certificate will be used on additional servers, please select the total number of servers for which this certificate will be used. The price per each additional server is the same as the price for the the initial server. If you need to install this on more than 100 servers, please contact us."

From what I gather from the documentation, the same certificate is used on both appliances in the failover bundle (based upon service IP).  So does this mean that even though only one of the appliances is active at a time, we have to pay twice the price to license the cert? What is everyone else doing for this? Is this just the nature of the beast or are there other popular trusted CA's that you use without this additional cost?  Considering the number of appliances that we are deploying, the cost over a few years for both appliances in a bundle will become somewhat prohibitive.



Thanks in advance,

-Tim