If you wish to protect the info which visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encode any data exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it literally 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 clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the information is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big profit, so to save you the cash, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Web Hosting

A shared IP could be used for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from our company or from some other retailer and regardless of the cloud web hosting service that you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you shall come across this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer. If the latter is picked inside the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP, so once you buy and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the money that 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 data which the website visitors submit shall be encrypted. The sole difference is that if you type the shared IP address instead of your domain in a browser, the Internet site shall not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP option is available with all semi-dedicated hosting and the setup takes just a couple of mouse clicks inside the hosting CP no matter if you buy an SSL through our company or through a third-party supplier. There will not be any difference in the way the certificate functions or encodes the data your site visitors submit, so your Internet site shall be protected without having to spend the additional cash for a dedicated IP. The only thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your website, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anybody will ever try to access your website in this way instead of typing your domain. Additionally we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs obtained via our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP address instead of a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the minute the SSL is approved and issued without the need for any action on your end.