If you'd like to protect the information which visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any data, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter if you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that 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 Website Hosting
You will be able to use this option with all our website hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything shall be arrange automatically and you'll not have to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to pick a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be installed by our system, so using this feature requires a maximum of 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary info for the certificate. The adequate operation of the SSL shall not be affected in any way and any data which site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and protected in the exact same way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever attempt to access it in this way as opposed to entering your domain name in the browser URL bar.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Any SSL certificate can be used with our specially set up shared IPs, therefore if you have a semi-dedicated hosting account, you could use this option with merely several mouse clicks when you install a certificate which you acquire through us or through another dealer. For the SSLs which we offer you could also take advantage of another function and have our system set everything up for you. This way the instant you approve the SSL, the shared IP will be set for the particular domain name or subdomain and the certificate shall be installed with no action needed on your end, and so any info that site visitors submit on your website shall be secure. The SSL shall do the job in the exact same way irrespective if it is set on a shared or a dedicated IP and the only thing that's different between the two setups is that entering the shared IP address as a URL inside a web browser won't open your site.