If you wish 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 is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, 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 actual content, thus if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the data is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make 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

You can use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with each shared hosting solution that we offer and no matter if the SSL is bought through us or through a third-party business. If the SSL is acquired on our end, not only can you select the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also pick our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system shall do the installation for you within a matter of seconds and you will not have to do anything by hand. The sole difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your site won't appear in case you try to open https://the-IP-address as opposed to https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you could protect the info of your clients and have a reliable Internet site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

Any SSL certificate can be employed with our specially configured shared IPs, so if you have a semi-dedicated server account, you can use this option with merely a few clicks when you install a certificate which you obtain through us or through some other retailer. For the SSLs that we offer you could also take advantage of an extra function and have our system set everything up for you. This way as soon as you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the given domain or subdomain and the certificate will be installed without any action needed on your end, so any information that visitors submit on your Internet site shall be secure. The SSL will perform in the same exact way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing that is different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL inside a browser won't open your site.