If you wish to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encode any data exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the data is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter if you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that 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 Shared Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all of our shared hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you will not have to do anything after you purchase 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 two additional clicks after you fill the needed info for the certificate. The proper functioning of the SSL will not be influenced in any way and any information which site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The only difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it this way as opposed to typing your domain in the world-wide web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be used with our specially configured shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you'll be able to use this option with only a couple of mouse clicks when you install a certificate you acquire through us or through some other retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the particular domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed without any action required on your end, and thus any data that visitors submit on your Internet site will be protected. The SSL will work in the same exact way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the 1 thing which is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL inside a web browser will not open your website.