If you would like to protect the data which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between an Internet 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 existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, thus if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee 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 in case you run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big profit, so to save you the cash, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.
Shared SSL IP in Shared Hosting
A shared IP could be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you buy it from us or from a different seller and regardless of the shared hosting package that you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL through us, you will come across this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting CP where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer. If the latter is selected within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP, so once you acquire and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You can save the funds that you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will work in the same exact way, so any data which the visitors submit shall be encoded. The one difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name inside a browser, the site shall not appear.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The shared IP option is available with all semi-dedicated packages and the setup takes only 2 clicks within the hosting CP irrespective if you buy an SSL from our business or through a third-party vendor. There will not be any difference in the way the certificate operates or encrypts the information your website visitors submit, so your site will be secure without having to spend the extra cash for a dedicated IP. The only thing that'll be different is that https://the-shared-IP won't open your website, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anybody will ever try to access your site in this way instead of keying in your domain name. Additionally we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs bought through our company and if you select it and you opt to use a shared IP instead of a dedicated one, our system shall set everything up as soon as the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.