If you want to protect the data that visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encrypt any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the data is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter in case 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 Web Hosting
A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from us or from another vendor and regardless of the shared web hosting package you have on our end. If you get the SSL through us, you shall come across this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting CP where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP, so once you acquire and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the funds you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL will function in the same exact way, so any data which the site visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you type the shared IP address instead of your domain name inside an Internet browser, the site will not appear.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You could use a shared IP address for an SSL acquired through us or through any other vendor with any of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages. The setup is extremely simple and if you acquire the certificate from our company, you can also benefit from our SSL wizard where with merely a few mouse clicks you could choose the SSL to be installed automatically for the particular domain name or subdomain on the shared IP address that's configured to be used for this purpose. This option will save you time and work as you'll not have to do anything after you approve the SSL via e-mail, not mentioning the cash you'll save for the IP on a monthly basis. Your website will be secured and any client will feel confident that their data will be protected since using a shared IP address does not influence the proper operation of the certificate and the only real difference from using a dedicated one is that the IP cannot be used as a URL to access your Internet site.