If you'd like to protect the info which visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter if you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big income, 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 Hosting
A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from our company or from some other vendor and regardless of the hosting service which you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL through us, you will find this option on the certificate order page in your hosting CP where you can also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you via the specially configured server shared IP, so once you buy and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the money that you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall function in the same exact way, so any data the visitors submit shall be encrypted. The only difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain in an Internet browser, the Internet site will not show up.