If you wish to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the real content, thus if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the information is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big profit, 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 Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you acquire it from our company or from another seller and regardless of the shared hosting service which you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also take full advantage 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 using the specially configured server shared IP address, therefore once you buy and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the funds that you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall work in the exact same way, so any info that the website visitors submit will be encrypted. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain inside a browser, the Internet site shall not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting and the setup takes just two clicks within the hosting Control Panel irrespective if you buy an SSL through our business or from a third-party supplier. There shall not be any difference with regards to how the certificate operates or encodes the data which your visitors submit, so your Internet site will be protected without spending any additional cash for a dedicated IP. The only thing that 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 anybody shall ever try to access your website in this way as opposed to inputting your domain. In addition, we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs purchased through our company and if you select it and you opt to use a shared IP address instead of a dedicated one, our system shall set everything up the moment the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.