If you would like to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big revenue, so to save you the cash, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Hosting

You shall be able to use this option with all of our shared hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to select a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires a maximum of 2 additional clicks after you fill the required info for the certificate. The proper functioning of the SSL won't be influenced in any way and any info which website visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the very same way. The one big difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// won't open your Internet site, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever attempt to access it this way as opposed to inputting your domain within the web browser URL bar.