If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the actual content, thus if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the info is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet 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 revenue, 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
You can use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with each and every shared web hosting package which we offer and irrespective if the SSL is purchased through us or through a third-party company. If the SSL is acquired on our end, not only can you pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you can also select our auto-configuration option, so as soon as you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will set it up for you within a few seconds and you won't need to do anything personally. The only difference between employing a shared IP address and a dedicated one is that your Internet site won't appear in the event that you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be exactly the same. With this feature you could protect the information of your clients and have a reliable site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP.