If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encode any data exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, 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, 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 shall be an assurance that the info is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make 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 Web Hosting

A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you acquire it from our company or from another retailer and regardless of the shared web hosting plan you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL through us, you shall come across this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting Control Panel where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is picked within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP, thus once you acquire and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the funds that you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall work in the same exact way, so any info the website visitors submit shall be encrypted. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name within a web browser, the site won't display.