If you'd like to protect the information that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee 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 expense may matter when you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big revenue, 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 Shared Web Hosting

As we offer SSL certificates with our shared web hosting packages, you can quickly secure your site and use a shared IP address with just several clicks. The option will be available during the order procedure, thus if you have a dedicated IP, you could use it, but if you don't have one and you don't want to pay for this sort of a service, you can use the shared IP, that has been set up specifically for SSLs. The certificate shall work in the exact same way as if it had a dedicated IP and the one difference shall be that if someone attempts to open the IP address as a URL, they will not see your Internet site. Since our system has an auto-configuration option, the SSL shall be set up automatically as soon as it is issued, so you shall not have to do anything on your end after you approve it. That way, you'll be able to have a risk-free and reliable Internet site without spending more money for that.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP option is available with all semi-dedicated servers and the setup takes only two mouse clicks within the hosting CP no matter if you purchase an SSL from our business or through a third-party vendor. There shall not be any difference with regards to how the certificate functions or encodes the data your website visitors submit, so your site will be secure without having to spend the additional funds for a dedicated IP address. The only thing that'll be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever try to access your internet site in this way instead of 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 will set everything up the minute the SSL is approved and issued with no need for any action on your end.