If you wish to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any data, 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 actual content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.
Shared SSL IP in Shared Web Hosting
You will be able to use this option with all our shared web hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you prefer to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you will not need to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to pick a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires no more than 2 additional mouse clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The proper functioning of the SSL shall not be affected in any way and any information that visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The sole difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your Internet site, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone will ever attempt to access it that way as opposed to typing your domain in the browser URL bar.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Any SSL certificate could be used with our specially configured shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you can use this option with just a few mouse clicks when you install a certificate that you obtain through us or through another vendor. For the SSLs which we offer you could also take advantage of an additional function and have our system set everything up for you. In this way as soon as you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the specific domain or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed without any action expected on your end, and thus any info that site visitors submit on your site shall be secure. The SSL will do the job in the same exact way no matter if it's set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the one thing that's different between the two setups is that inputting the shared IP as a URL in an Internet browser won't open your website.