If you wish to protect the information that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to 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 information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the actual content, therefore if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the information is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter in case you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Web Hosting

You can use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with each and every cloud web hosting package which we offer and irrespective if the SSL is acquired through us or through a third-party firm. If the SSL is obtained on our end, not only will you be able to pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also select our auto-configuration option, so once you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will do the installation for you within a couple of seconds and you will not need to do anything manually. The sole difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your Internet site will not appear in case you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but other than that, everything will be exactly the same. With this function you can protect the info of your customers and have a secure Internet site without the added expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP address option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated servers and the setup takes merely a couple of clicks within the hosting Control Panel regardless if you purchase an SSL through our business or through a third-party supplier. There shall not be any difference in the way the certificate works or encodes the data your visitors submit, so your site will be secure without spending the additional funds for a dedicated IP address. The one thing that will be different is that https://the-shared-IP will not open your Internet site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it's unlikely that anyone will ever try to access your site in this way rather than inputting your domain. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs ordered via our company and if you select it and you choose to use a shared IP address as opposed to a dedicated one, our system shall set everything up the instant the SSL is approved and issued without the need for any action on your end.