If you wish to protect the data which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between a 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 virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some type or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big income, 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 Hosting

You can use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with every single hosting package which we offer and irrespective if the SSL is purchased through our company or through a third-party vendor. If the SSL is acquired on our end, not only will you be able to pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also choose our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system shall install it for you within a couple of seconds and you won't need to do anything by hand. The only difference between employing a shared IP address and a dedicated one is that your site will not appear in the event that you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but besides that, everything will be the same. With this function you can protect the information of your clients and have a risk-free website without the additional expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP address option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting service and the setup takes only 2 clicks inside the hosting Control Panel no matter if you order an SSL through our company or through a third-party provider. There won't be any difference with regards to how the certificate operates or encodes the info which your site visitors submit, so your website shall be secure without having to spend any additional cash for a dedicated IP. The sole thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your website, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is unlikely that anybody shall ever try to access your website in this way as opposed to keying in your domain. In addition, we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs obtained via our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP address as opposed to a dedicated one, our system shall set everything up as soon as the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.