If you'd like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encrypt 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 existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the actual content, and so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter in case you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big income, so to save you the funds, 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 can be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you buy it from our company or from some other retailer and regardless of the shared web hosting package you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you will come across this option on the certificate order page in your hosting CP where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is picked in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP address, so once you obtain and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the cash you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any info that the website visitors submit will be encoded. The one difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name within a browser, the site will not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP option is available with all semi-dedicated packages and the setup takes merely 2 mouse clicks within the hosting CP regardless if you get an SSL through our company or via a third-party supplier. There won't be any difference in the way the certificate functions or encodes the data your site visitors submit, so your site will be secure without spending the additional money for a dedicated IP. The one thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anyone will ever try to access your internet site in this way instead of entering your domain name. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs purchased via our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP as opposed to a dedicated one, our system will set everything up as soon as the SSL is approved and issued without the need for any action on your end.