If you want to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the actual content, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products 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 needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter in case you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Web Hosting

A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from our company or from some other seller and regardless of the web hosting service you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer. If the latter is selected in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specifically configured server shared IP, so once you order and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the money you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall work in the exact same way, so any info which the visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain within an Internet browser, the website will not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate could be used with our specifically set up shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with just a few clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through any other vendor. For the SSLs we offer you are also able to take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. That way the instant you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the particular domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action expected on your end, and so any information that site visitors submit on your Internet site shall be secure. The SSL shall work in the same exact way irrespective 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 typing the shared IP as a URL inside an Internet browser will not open your Internet site.