If you want to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they shall 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, 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 will be an assurance that the data is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big profit, so to save you the cash, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, no matter if you get it from our company or from another seller and regardless of the hosting plan you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you'll discover this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting Control Panel where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is selected in the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP address, thus once you buy and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You can save the money that you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will function in the same exact way, so any data the website visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name inside a browser, the Internet site shall not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

You could use a shared IP for an SSL bought through us or through any other supplier with any of our Linux semi-dedicated plans. The setup is extremely easy and if you obtain the certificate from our company, you can also take advantage of our SSL wizard where with merely a couple of mouse clicks you'll be able to pick the SSL to be installed automatically for the specific domain name or subdomain on the shared IP address that's configured to be employed for this specific purpose. This option will save you time and efforts given that you won't need to do anything after you approve the SSL via e mail, not mentioning the funds you shall save for the IP address on a monthly basis. Your site will be secured and any customer will feel certain that their information will be protected since using a shared IP address doesn't affect the proper operation of the certificate and the sole difference from using a dedicated one is that the IP address cannot be used as a URL to access your site.