If you wish to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and goods online and clients submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the data is secure. Typically 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 manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big profit, 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 Cloud Hosting
A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from our company or from another retailer and regardless of the cloud hosting package you have on our end. If you acquire 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 selected in the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specially configured server shared IP, thus once you obtain and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You could save the money that you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall function in the same exact way, so any data which the visitors submit will be encoded. The only difference is that if you input the shared IP address instead of your domain name within a browser, the website won't appear.