If you wish to protect the data which visitors submit on your Internet site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any information exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the actual content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the info is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter in case you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big revenue, so to save you the money, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all our shared hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you decide to use an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to choose a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires no more than two additional mouse clicks after you fill the required details for the certificate. The appropriate functioning of the SSL shall not be influenced in any way and any info which visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The sole difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it in this way rather than entering your domain name inside the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP address option is available with all semi-dedicated servers and the setup takes merely 2 clicks in the hosting Control Panel regardless if you order an SSL through our business or through a third-party vendor. There will not be any difference with regards to how the certificate functions or encodes the information that your website visitors submit, so your website shall be protected without having to spend any additional cash for a dedicated IP. The sole thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is unlikely that anyone shall ever try to access your site in this way as opposed to keying in your domain name. In addition, we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs acquired via our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP address rather than a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the minute the SSL is approved and issued with no need for any action on your end.