If you wish to protect the information which visitors submit on your Internet site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encode any information exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and goods online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is secure. Usually 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 in case you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate 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 Cloud Hosting

You'll be able to use this option with all of our cloud hosting plans and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. When you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be set up automatically and you won't have to do anything after you order and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will enable you to select a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this function requires only 2 additional mouse clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL shall not be impacted in any way and any data which website visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The one difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your website, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way instead of inputting your domain name in the Internet browser URL bar.