If you want to protect the information which 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 encrypt any data exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some sort 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 protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter if you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big profit, so to save you the money, our cloud web 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 of our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. When you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything will 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 choose a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires only two additional clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any info which website visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the very same way. The only big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way rather than inputting your domain in the browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specifically configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with simply a few clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through another vendor. 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 address will be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action needed on your end, and so any data that website visitors submit on your Internet site will be protected. The SSL will perform in the exact same way irrespective if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the one thing which is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL within a browser won't open your Internet site.