If you want to protect the info which visitors submit on your site, 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 ensure 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 literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer products and services online and clients submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is protected. Normally 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 in case you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big profit, 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 Website Hosting

A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you acquire it from us or from another vendor and regardless of the website hosting plan you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you shall find this option on the certificate order page in your hosting CP where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specifically configured server shared IP, therefore once you obtain and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the cash that you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall do the job in the same exact way, so any data that the visitors submit will be encoded. The only difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain name within a browser, the site won't show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

The shared IP address option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated plans and the setup takes only 2 mouse clicks inside the hosting Control Panel no matter if you obtain an SSL via our business or through a third-party supplier. There won't be any difference in the way the certificate works or encrypts the information your website visitors submit, so your website shall be protected without spending the additional funds for a dedicated IP address. The sole thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP will not open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it's highly unlikely that anybody shall ever try to access your internet site in this way instead of keying in your domain name. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs obtained via our company and if you select it and you opt to use a shared IP instead of a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the instant the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.