If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter when you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big income, 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 Shared Hosting
A shared IP could be used for any SSL certificate, no matter if you buy it from our company or from some other seller and regardless of the shared hosting package you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also take full advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer. If the latter is picked inside the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specially configured server shared IP, therefore once you acquire and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the cash that you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall do the job in the exact same way, so any data that the website visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name in a browser, the website won't display.