If you would like to protect the data that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your 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 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 Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all of our cloud hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. When you decide to use an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you will not have 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 set up by our system, so using this function requires a maximum of two additional mouse clicks after you fill the needed info for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL won't be affected in any way and any information which website visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and secured in the same exact way. The sole difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your website, but it is unlikely that anyone will ever seek to access it in this way instead of entering your domain inside the world-wide web browser URL bar.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Any SSL certificate could be employed with our specially set up shared IPs, thus if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with just a few mouse clicks when you install a certificate that you acquire through us or through some other dealer. For the SSLs which we offer you are also able to take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way once you approve the SSL, the shared IP address shall be set for the particular domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed without any action required on your end, so any data that website visitors submit on your Internet site shall be protected. The SSL will do the job in the same exact way regardless if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP address and the only thing which is different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL in an Internet browser shall not open your Internet site.