If you wish to protect the data that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any information exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the actual content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not generate a big profit, so to save you the funds, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Website Hosting

You will be able to use this option with all of our shared website hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will enable you to pick a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this function requires a maximum of 2 additional mouse clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The appropriate functioning of the SSL won't be influenced in any way and any details which visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The sole difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your website, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it in this way rather than typing your domain name inside the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specially set up shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with just a couple of clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through some other dealer. For the SSLs we offer you can also take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. This way the instant you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action expected on your end, and so any info that website visitors submit on your site will be secure. The SSL shall perform in the same exact way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the 1 thing that is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP address as a URL within a browser will not open your Internet site.