If you'd like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter when 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 hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. When you decide to use an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you won't need to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to select a shared IP address 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 required data for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL won't be influenced in any way and any details which visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The sole difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your Internet site, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever attempt to access it this way as opposed to typing your domain in the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be used with our specifically set up shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with only a few mouse clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through another retailer. For the SSLs which we offer you could also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. This way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action needed on your end, and so any info that visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL will perform in the exact same way regardless if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing which is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL inside a browser will not open your site.