If you would like to protect the data that visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll 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, and so if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the data is secure. Usually 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 online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate a big profit, so to save you the funds, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Web Hosting

A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you buy it from our company or from a different seller and regardless of the web hosting service which you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL through us, you shall find this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting CP where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is picked inside 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 order and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You could save the cash you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall work in the exact same way, so any info that the visitors submit will be encoded. The sole difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain within an Internet browser, the site will not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specially set up shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with merely several mouse clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through some other dealer. For the SSLs we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. This way once you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action required on your end, and thus any information that site visitors submit on your Internet site shall be secure. The SSL shall do the job in the exact same way no matter if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the 1 thing that is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL inside a browser will not open your Internet site.