If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your Internet site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person 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 real content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer products and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is protected. Typically 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 generate a big revenue, so to save you the cash, our cloud web 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 our shared hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything will be set up automatically and you won't have to do anything after you obtain and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to choose a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires no more than two additional mouse clicks after you fill the needed details for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL will not be impacted in any way and any details that site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the exact same way. The one big difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever attempt to access it this way as opposed to entering your domain inside the browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP address option is available with all semi-dedicated servers and the setup takes just a couple of clicks in the hosting Control Panel regardless if you obtain an SSL from our company or through a third-party vendor. There will not be any difference with regards to how the certificate works or encrypts the information that your website visitors submit, so your Internet site shall be protected without having to spend the additional funds for a dedicated IP address. The one thing that will be different is that https://the-shared-IP shall not open your Internet site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anyone will ever try to access your website in this way rather than inputting your domain. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs acquired via our company and if you select it and you choose to use a shared IP instead of a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the instant the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.