If you'd like to protect the data which visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Web Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you acquire it from our company or from a different dealer and regardless of the shared web hosting package that you have on our end. If you get the SSL through us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP, thus once you obtain and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the money you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any data the website visitors submit shall be encoded. The only difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name in an Internet browser, the website won't display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specifically configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you'll be able to use this option with just a few mouse clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through any other retailer. For the SSLs which we offer you are also able to take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action expected on your end, so any info that website visitors submit on your website will be secure. The SSL shall do the job in the exact same way irrespective if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the 1 thing which is different between the two setups is that typing the shared IP as a URL within a browser will not open your website.