If you would like to protect the info which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the actual content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter in case you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Website Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all of our website hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. When you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you won't need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to select a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires a maximum of 2 additional clicks after you fill the needed info for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any information that website visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it that way as opposed to typing your domain inside the web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specifically set up shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you'll be able to use this option with simply a couple of mouse clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through some other dealer. For the SSLs which we offer you could also take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. This way the moment you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action needed on your end, so any data that website visitors submit on your website shall be secure. The SSL shall perform in the exact same way irrespective if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing that's different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP as a URL inside a web browser shall not open your website.