If you want to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing 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 goods and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate 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 Cloud Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all our cloud hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you prefer to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you won't have to do anything after you obtain and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to choose a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires no more than 2 additional clicks after you fill the required details for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL shall not be influenced in any way and any info that site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the very same way. The only big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it this way rather than inputting your domain name in the web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be employed with our specially configured shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with only several mouse clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through some other retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you could also take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. That way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action needed on your end, so any data 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 address and the 1 thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL within a browser won't open your Internet site.