If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the actual content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not generate a big revenue, 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 Shared Website Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, regardless if you get it from us or from some other retailer and regardless of the shared website hosting plan which you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL from us, you will find this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting CP where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer. If the latter is picked in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specifically configured server shared IP address, therefore once you obtain and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the cash that you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any info the website visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain name within a browser, the site will not appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to use a shared IP address for an SSL obtained through us or through any other vendor with any of our semi-dedicated hosting plans. The setup is really basic and if you get the certificate from our company, you can also take advantage of our SSL wizard where with simply several mouse clicks you'll be able to pick the SSL to be installed automatically for the selected domain name or subdomain on the shared IP address that is configured to be used for this specific purpose. This option will save you time and work given that you will not need to do anything after you approve the SSL via e mail, not mentioning the money you'll save for the IP on a monthly basis. Your Internet site will be secure and any customer will feel assured that their data will be protected as using a shared IP address does not influence the proper performance of the certificate and the only difference from using a dedicated one is that the IP address cannot be used as a URL to access your Internet site.