I think you're overstating how bad things are. Dreamhost, for example, no longer requires a dedicated IP for SSL, though they do still recommend it for e-commerce. They are charging $15/year for a CA-signed certificate. Granted, that's for a single-site cert and they don't support wildcards under this scenario, but the vacation blogger isn't likely to need that anyway.
Re:Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
by icebraining on Thursday April 30, 2015 @09:31PM
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Charging ~$5/month/dedicated IP is a nice upsell
It's only an upsell now. If in the future SSL is required to get access, it stops being an upsell and starts having to be part of the basic package. Whether that will raise prices significantly is yet to be seen.
Re:Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
by NeutronBoy on Friday May 01, 2015 @12:32AM
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> But for the average Joe who is blogging about his vacations and family? They're going to be completely lost.
Average Joe uses Facebook, Tumblr, Wordpress, or any number of existing hosts to blog to his family.
Yes, the hosts could wildcard. Yes, there are other solutions out there. But for the average Joe who is blogging about his vacations and family? They're going to be completely lost.
Why don't shared hosts just wildcard? Shared certificate? Well, let's think about it... Charging ~$5/month/dedicated IP is a nice upsell, and getting $70 for an installed SSL cert that costs them $10 from their SSL cert reseller, that takes them 2 minutes to configure... That's a nice slice of pie. I'd take that bet any day.