If you want to protect the info which visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the information is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big profit, 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 Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you get it from our company or from a different vendor and regardless of the hosting package which you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you'll come across this option on the certificate order page in your hosting Control Panel where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP address, so once you order and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the cash you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall function in the exact same way, so any information that the visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you type the shared IP address instead of your domain name inside an Internet browser, the Internet site won't appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated packages and the setup takes only two mouse clicks within the hosting Control Panel regardless if you get an SSL from our business or from a third-party supplier. There will not be any difference in terms of how the certificate operates or encrypts the info that your site visitors submit, so your Internet site will be protected without having to spend the extra cash for a dedicated IP address. The one thing that will be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your website, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anyone will ever try to access your internet site in this way as opposed to typing your domain name. Additionally we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs obtained through our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP address rather than a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the moment the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.