Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside a second file. It is used mainly with online content and it can help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on numerous pages of your site, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every single day. All the web pages where this file is included are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to edit all of them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. In this way, you may make your internet site appear far more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting plans that we offer and enable it independently for each domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be done by using an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy and paste it, since you don't need any coding expertise to benefit from all features that our services feature. If you have already built your site and you want to employ Server Side Includes later on, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.