Alternatives to Heroku SSL Endpoint add-on

Question

I'm looking for information on how to configure an HTTP load balancer or proxy server (squid, nginx, HAProxy, etc.) to handle the SSL for my domain as an alternative to adding Heroku's SSL Endpoint add-on for $20/month.

The load balancer or proxy server would terminate the SSL connection and the last leg to the heroku server would be over http.

Onto

I don't have specifics, but it may be possible to use Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancer as such a SSL termination proxy. Latency should be low as Heroku runs on AWS. – Ungainly

Answer 1

SSL is now included on all paid dynos. Thus, you pay only the certificate price.

https://blog.heroku.com/ssl-is-now-included-on-all-paid-dynos

Humboldt

Answer 2

A new add-on was added a few short months ago called Expedited SSL. This add-on provides you with both the registration of an SSL certificate along with the endpoint for serving it, whereas SSL Endpoint is only the endpoint used to serve the SSL certificate you've already purchased from an SSL provider.

Lewis

Thanks for this info. The single plan is $15. – Onto

This actually costs $35 because you have to pay the $20/month for the heroku ssl addon – Switzer