Shared SSL IP
Learn what a shared SSL IP is and just how you can use one to easily put in place an SSL certificate.
If you'd like to protect the data that visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, 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 real content, thus if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make a big income, so to save you the cash, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.
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Shared SSL IP in Website Hosting
A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you acquire it from our company or from a different dealer and regardless of the
website hosting package you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL from us, you will find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is picked within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you via the specially configured server shared IP, so once you order and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the cash you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any info that the website visitors submit will be encoded. The one difference is that if you enter the shared IP address instead of your
domain name within an Internet browser, the website will not display.