If you'd like to protect the data which visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the actual content, and so if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is protected. Typically 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 manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big income, so to save you the money, 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

You shall be able to use this option with all our shared hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything shall be set up automatically and you will not need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to pick a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires a maximum of 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary details for the certificate. The appropriate operation of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any details that website visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The sole big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever seek to access it in this way rather than typing your domain inside the Internet browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate can be used with our specifically configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with just several mouse clicks when you install a certificate you purchase through us or through some other vendor. For the SSLs we offer you could also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way the minute you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed with no action required on your end, and thus any data that visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL will function in the exact same way no matter if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the one thing that's different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL inside a web browser shall not open your site.