If you'd like to protect the info which visitors submit on your Internet site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the actual content, thus if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter if you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big income, so to save you the money, 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 Website Hosting

You will be able to use this option with all our shared website hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. When you prefer to work with an SSL from our company, everything shall be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will enable you to pick a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires only two additional clicks after you fill the needed details for the certificate. The appropriate functioning of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any data which visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the very same way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it that way as opposed to entering your domain name in the browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specifically configured shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with just several clicks when you install a certificate you obtain through us or through another retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you can also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. Thus the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action required on your end, and so any info that website visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL shall work in the exact same way irrespective if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the only thing that is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL within a browser will not open your site.