Hi there

I have a current site with an SSL certificate for the "www.mysite.com" of a domain name, but not for the subdomain site "blog.mysite.com".

Both sites are loaded on one instance of Umbraco and use the Hostnames functionality built into Umbraco to separate.

I am now looking to secure the blog site, and am stuck with the best approach. I see there being two options:

1. Move the blog under the www, so it becomes www.mysite.com/blog/ - this is not as nice from a marketing perspective and is not the preferred option.

2. Buy a certificate for "blog.mysite.com" (cost is not an issue) the technical setup of this has me stumped. I have setup the sub-domain as a virtual subdomain with the web hosting provider and then let Umbraco do the rest.

As I see it, if I buy a "blog" certificate, I would need to setup the blog subdomain as an actual subdomain and then maintain 2 copies of Umbraco, and most probably with separate databases.

I thought that maybe 2 sites pointing to the same database might work, but then how would you move between them both - I'd assume Umbraco would get in the way (no disrespect meant) and cause issues with the SSL's, etc.

Buying a wildcard SSL isn't an option due to cost.

Can anyone provide thoughts / feedback.

Thanks

Nigel