If you want to protect the info which visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer products and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the info is secure. Normally 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 when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Website Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all our shared website hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. When you choose to use an SSL from our company, everything shall be set up automatically and you will not have to do anything after you order and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to choose a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires no more than two additional mouse clicks after you fill the needed data for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL shall not be influenced in any way and any data that visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The only difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it that way as opposed to inputting your domain in the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate can be employed with our specifically configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you can use this option with just several clicks when you install a certificate which you obtain through us or through some other vendor. For the SSLs which we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus once you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the particular domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action needed on your end, and so any data that site visitors submit on your Internet site shall be protected. The SSL will do the job in the exact same way no matter if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the 1 thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL within a browser will not open your Internet site.