LiquidWeb hosting services has partnered with GlobalSign to offer SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which will allow their customers to purchase the SLL certificates to use along with their traditional web hosting offerings.

Travis Stoliker, Marketing Director of Liquid Web, had this to say regarding the new partnership:

“We chose GlobalSign based on reliability, cost and overall ROI. Our customers have increasing security concerns which prompted us to find a provider who could offer the most reliable and cost effective SSL security solution.”

Naturally, Liquid Web must have looked at their well-known competitor Verisign, so it would be interesting to get a more specific reason. This news comes on the heel of Verisign’s announcement of exceeding their 4 millionth SSL certificate issued. Literally within hours. The timing may be coincidental, or perhaps GlobalSign is trying to nudge aside Verisign’s news aside with some news of it’s own.

Nonetheless, if these two press releases were to be a conversation, Verisign’s bragging about their “milestones”, and GlobalSign’s response is that it is focused on getting new customers, rather than patting itself on the back.