If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will 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 website. The additional cost may matter in case you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big revenue, so to save you the cash, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with each cloud hosting plan which we offer and regardless if the SSL is purchased through our company or through a third-party firm. If the SSL is bought on our end, not only will you be able to choose the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also select our auto-configuration option, so once you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will do the installation for you within a matter of seconds and you'll not have to do anything personally. The only difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your website won't appear in the event that you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be the same. With this function you'll be able to protect the information of your clients and have a reliable site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP address option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting and the setup takes merely 2 clicks inside the hosting Control Panel no matter if you order an SSL from our business or through a third-party supplier. There won't be any difference in terms of how the certificate functions or encodes the info which your visitors submit, so your site shall be protected without spending the additional money for a dedicated IP. The only thing which will be different is that https://the-shared-IP shall not open your website, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is extremely unlikely that anyone shall ever try to access your site in this way instead of inputting your domain. We also offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs acquired via our company and if you select it and you choose to use a shared IP address as opposed to a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the instant the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.