If you would like to protect the info which visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encode any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any data, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, and so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big income, so to save you the cash, 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 will be able to use this option with all our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you choose to use an SSL from our company, everything will be arrange automatically and you won't need to do anything after you obtain and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to select a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires no more than two additional clicks after you fill the required information for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any details which visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The only big difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your site, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever seek to access it that way rather than typing your domain name in the web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specially set up shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you'll be able to use this option with only a couple of mouse clicks when you install a certificate you purchase through us or through another retailer. For the SSLs which we offer you are also able to take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus once you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action expected on your end, and so any information that visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL will work in the same exact way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the one thing that is different between the two setups is that typing the shared IP address as a URL in a web browser won't open your site.