If you wish to protect the information that visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encrypt any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, and so if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate a big profit, so to save you the funds, 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 will be able to use this option with all of our shared hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. When you prefer to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you will not have to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to pick a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires a maximum of two additional clicks after you fill the needed details for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any info which visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the very same way. The sole difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your Internet site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it in this way rather than entering your domain name within the browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specifically configured shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you could use this option with simply a couple of mouse clicks when you install a certificate that you obtain through us or through another dealer. For the SSLs that we offer you could also take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way once you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action expected on your end, and thus any information that visitors submit on your Internet site will be secure. The SSL will function in the exact same way no matter if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the one thing which is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL within an Internet browser will not open your site.