If you would like to protect the information which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encrypt 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 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 services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is protected. Usually 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 manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big profit, so to save you the money, 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 Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you prefer to use an SSL from our company, everything will be arrange automatically and you will not need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to choose a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires no more than 2 additional mouse clicks after you fill the necessary details for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL won't be affected in any way and any details which website visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The sole big difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your site, but it is unlikely that anyone will ever seek to access it this way instead of typing your domain name inside the web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be employed with our specially 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 you purchase through us or through some other retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you are also able to take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. That way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action required on your end, and so any information that visitors submit on your website will be protected. The SSL shall function in the same exact way no matter if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the one thing that's different between the two setups is that typing the shared IP as a URL within a web browser shall not open your site.