If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your Internet site, 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 individual intercepts any data, they shall 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, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the info is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter in case you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big revenue, 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 Website Hosting

You can use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with every single website hosting package we offer and no matter if the SSL is bought through us or through a third-party company. If the SSL is purchased on our end, not only will you be able to pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you may also choose our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will install it for you within a matter of seconds and you will not need to do anything manually. The one difference between using a shared IP address and a dedicated one is that your Internet site will not appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but aside from that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you could protect the data of your customers and have a secure site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP address.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specially configured shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you'll be able to use this option with merely a few clicks when you install a certificate that you obtain through us or through some other dealer. For the SSLs which we offer you are also able to take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. That way the moment you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed without any action expected on your end, so any data that website visitors submit on your website will be protected. The SSL shall perform in the exact same way regardless if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the 1 thing that's different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL in a web browser shall not open your site.