If you would like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encode any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, thus if you have a login form of some kind or you offer products and services online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big income, so to save you the cash, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you purchase it from our company or from some other dealer and regardless of the shared hosting service that you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL through us, you will 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 which we offer you. If the latter is selected in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP address, therefore once you buy and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the funds that you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will work in the same exact way, so any info that the visitors submit will be encoded. The only difference is that if you enter the shared IP address instead of your domain inside an Internet browser, the Internet site will not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to use a shared IP for an SSL acquired through us or through any other retailer with any of our semi-dedicated hosting services. The setup is extremely basic and if you get the certificate from our company, you can also benefit from our SSL wizard where with only a couple of mouse clicks you'll be able to choose the SSL to be installed automatically for the selected domain or subdomain on the shared IP which is configured to be used for this specific purpose. This option shall save you time and efforts considering that you will not need to do anything after you approve the SSL via e-mail, not mentioning the funds you'll save for the IP address on a monthly basis. Your website shall be secure and any client will feel confident that their information shall be protected given that using a shared IP address doesn't affect the adequate performance of the certificate and the sole difference from using a dedicated one is that the IP address can't be used as a URL to access your Internet site.