If you wish to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make 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 Website Hosting

You could use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with every single website hosting package which we offer and no matter if the SSL is acquired through our company or through a third-party vendor. If the SSL is bought on our end, not only will you be able to select the shared IP to be set during the order, but you may also choose our auto-configuration option, so once you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will set it up for you within a couple of seconds and you will not need to do anything by hand. The one difference between employing a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your website will not appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address rather than https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you can protect the information of your customers and have a reliable Internet site without the added expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specifically configured shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you can use this option with only several mouse clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through some other vendor. For the SSLs that we offer you could also take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the specific domain name or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action expected on your end, and so any data that site visitors submit on your Internet site will be protected. The SSL will work in the same exact way regardless if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL in a browser will not open your site.