If you want to protect the information which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encrypt any info exchanged between a website 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, thus if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the data is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big revenue, so to save you the cash, 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 will be able to use this option with all our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you'll not need to do anything after you obtain and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will enable you to pick a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires only 2 additional clicks after you fill the needed information for the certificate. The proper functioning of the SSL shall not be influenced in any way and any data that website visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anyone will ever seek to access it in this way as opposed to typing your domain within the world-wide web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specially configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you'll be able to use this option with just several mouse clicks when you install a certificate that you acquire through us or through any other vendor. For the SSLs that we offer you are also able to take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. This way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action required on your end, so any data that site visitors submit on your website will be secure. The SSL shall perform in the exact same way regardless if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the only thing that's different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP address as a URL inside a browser will not open your Internet site.