If you wish to protect the information that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between a website 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 pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, thus if you have a login form of some kind or you offer goods and services 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 if you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big profit, so to save you the funds, our cloud website 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 packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything shall be arrange automatically and you'll not need to do anything after you order and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to pick a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires a maximum of two additional mouse clicks after you fill the needed information for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL shall not be influenced in any way and any data that website visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the exact same way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way instead of entering your domain within the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specially configured shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with just several mouse clicks when you install a certificate you purchase through us or through another retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action needed on your end, and so any information that site visitors submit on your site will be secure. The SSL will function in the exact same way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the only thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP as a URL inside a web browser shall not open your website.