If you'd like to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encrypt any data exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter in case you run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big profit, so to save you the funds, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Web Hosting

A shared IP could be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from us or from some other seller and regardless of the web hosting package that you have on our end. If you get the SSL through us, you shall find this option on the certificate order page in your hosting Control Panel where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer. If the latter is selected inside the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP address, so once you buy and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the funds you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall do the job in the exact same way, so any information which the visitors submit will be encoded. The only difference is that if you input the shared IP address instead of your domain name in an Internet browser, the site won't display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The shared IP option is available with all Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages and the setup takes only two mouse clicks inside the hosting Control Panel irrespective if you purchase an SSL through our enterprise or via a third-party supplier. There won't be any difference in terms of how the certificate functions or encodes the information your site visitors submit, so your website will be secure without spending the additional money for a dedicated IP. The only thing that will be different is that https://the-shared-IP will not open your site, unlike https://the-dedicated-IP, but it is quite unlikely that anybody will ever try to access your site in this way instead of entering your domain name. In addition, we offer an auto-configuration option for the SSLs obtained through our company and if you select it and you decide to use a shared IP address instead of a dedicated one, our system will set everything up the minute the SSL is approved and issued without any action on your end.