If you want to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encrypt any information exchanged between an Internet site 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 existing level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter in case you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big profit, so to save you the funds, our cloud 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 could be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from our company or from some other vendor and regardless of the hosting service that you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you shall discover this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting CP where you can also take full advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer you. If the latter is selected inside the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you via the specifically configured server shared IP, thus once you buy and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the funds you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall function in the same exact way, so any data that the visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP address instead of your domain in a browser, the Internet site will not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to use a shared IP address for an SSL obtained through us or through any other dealer with any one of our semi-dedicated servers. The setup is extremely easy and if you acquire the certificate from our company, you could also benefit from our SSL wizard where with simply several clicks you can choose the SSL to be installed automatically for the specific domain or subdomain on the shared IP address that's configured to be used for this purpose. This option will save you time and efforts considering that you won't have to do anything after you approve the SSL through e-mail, not mentioning the funds you will save for the IP address on a monthly basis. Your site will be secured and any client will feel certain that their information will be protected since using a shared IP address does not affect the adequate functioning of the certificate and the sole difference from using a dedicated one is that the IP address cannot be used as a URL to access your website.