If you want to protect the information that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's 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 present level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the real content, and so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not 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 Website Hosting

You will be able to use this option with all of our cloud website hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any vendor. If you choose to use an SSL from our company, everything will be set up automatically and you won't need to do anything after you buy and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will enable you to choose a shared IP to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires only two additional clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The adequate operation of the SSL will not be affected in any way and any details that visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the exact same way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// shall not open your site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way rather than entering your domain within the Internet browser URL bar.