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

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Web Hosting

You will be able to use this option with all our cloud web hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you decide to use an SSL from our company, everything shall be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you order and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to select a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires only 2 additional clicks after you fill the needed details for the certificate. The proper functioning of the SSL will not be influenced in any way and any data that site visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anyone will ever try to access it that way rather than inputting your domain name within the web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP option is available with all semi-dedicated hosting plans and the setup takes just a couple of clicks in the hosting Control Panel no matter if you obtain an SSL from our business or through a third-party provider. There won't be any difference with regards to how the certificate operates or encodes the data which your site visitors submit, so your Internet site shall be secure without having to spend any additional cash for a dedicated IP. The one thing that will be different is that https://the-shared-IP shall not open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is highly unlikely that anybody shall ever try to access your website in this way as opposed to keying in your domain name. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs purchased through our company and if you select it and you choose to use a shared IP address rather than a dedicated one, our system shall set everything up the moment the SSL is approved and issued with no need for any action on your end.