If you wish to protect the information that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they'll 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 type or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional expense may matter if you run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big profit, so to save you the cash, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Web Hosting

You'll be able to use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with every single web hosting plan we offer and irrespective if the SSL is purchased through our company or through a third-party vendor. If the SSL is bought on our end, not only could you pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also select our auto-configuration option, so as soon as you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system shall handle the installation for you within a couple of seconds and you won't need to do anything yourself. The sole difference between employing a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your Internet site will not appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address rather than https://your-domain-name, but besides that, everything shall be exactly the same. With this feature you could protect the data of your clients and have a secure website without the added expense for a dedicated IP address.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be used with our specifically set up shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you could use this option with just several clicks when you install a certificate that you obtain through us or through some other retailer. For the SSLs which we offer you are also able to take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus once you approve the SSL, the shared IP shall be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed without any action required on your end, so any data that website visitors submit on your Internet site shall be secure. The SSL will function in the exact same way irrespective if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the one thing that's different between the two setups is that typing the shared IP as a URL in a web browser shall not open your site.