If you would like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, 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 real content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not 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 will be able to use this option with all of our shared hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you'll not need to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to choose a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires only two additional mouse clicks after you fill the necessary information for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL shall not be impacted in any way and any details which visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The one big difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your website, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way as opposed to inputting your domain name inside the world-wide web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specially set up shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with only a couple of mouse clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through some other vendor. For the SSLs that we offer you could also take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action needed on your end, and thus any data that visitors submit on your site will be protected. The SSL shall function in the exact same way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing which is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP address as a URL inside an Internet browser shall not open your site.