If you'd like to protect the information that visitors submit on your site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall 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, thus if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the data is protected. 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 run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big income, 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 Website Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you buy it from our company or from some other seller and regardless of the cloud website hosting service you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting Control Panel where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is picked within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP address, thus once you buy and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the cash that you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will function in the same exact way, so any information the website visitors submit shall be encrypted. The sole difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain in a web browser, the Internet site shall not appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specially configured shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you can use this option with only a few mouse clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through any other dealer. For the SSLs which we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus the instant you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action expected on your end, and so any info that visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL shall work in the exact same way irrespective if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the only thing that is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL within an Internet browser shall not open your Internet site.