If you want to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, 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, thus if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the info is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud website 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 can be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from our company or from another retailer and regardless of the shared hosting service you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL from us, you shall come across 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 which we offer you. If the latter is selected within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP address, therefore once you obtain and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the cash you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall function 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 inside an Internet browser, the site will not appear.