If you wish to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the data 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 if you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.
Shared SSL IP in Shared Web Hosting
A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from us or from a different seller and regardless of the shared web hosting service that you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you will find this option on the certificate order page in your hosting CP where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP, therefore once you buy and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the cash that you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall function in the exact same way, so any info that the visitors submit will be encrypted. The only difference is that if you input the shared IP address instead of your domain within an Internet browser, the site won't show up.