If you want to protect the info that visitors submit on your Internet site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encrypt any info exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any data, 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, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the data is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter if you run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Web Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all our shared web hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. When you decide to use an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you'll not have to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to pick a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires no more than 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL shall not be impacted in any way and any info that visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The sole difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your website, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever try to access it that way instead of typing your domain name within the world-wide web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be employed with our specifically set up shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you could use this option with simply a couple of clicks when you install a certificate that you acquire through us or through another retailer. 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. Thus once you approve the SSL, the shared IP address will be set for the given domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action needed on your end, so any info that site visitors submit on your website shall be protected. The SSL will work in the exact same way regardless if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the 1 thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP as a URL within a browser shall not open your site.