If you would like to protect the info that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between a site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and clients submit credit card info, 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 which doesn't generate a big profit, so to save you the money, our cloud 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 solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any retailer. If you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything can be arrange automatically and you won't need to do anything after you order and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will permit you to select a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires only 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary data for the certificate. The adequate functioning of the SSL will not be influenced in any way and any info that site visitors submit on your website will be encrypted and secured in the very same way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your website, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever attempt to access it in this way as opposed to entering your domain name within the world-wide web browser URL bar.