If you'd like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll 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, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big revenue, so to save you the money, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all our shared hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you won't need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit 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 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The proper operation of the SSL shall not be affected in any way and any details which site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The one big difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your website, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it that way instead of typing your domain name in the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

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