SSL, which is short for Secure Sockets Layer, is a security protocol that encodes the data which users submit on a website. If they input a username and a password on a login page or they purchase services and products online and they input their credit card information, the data shall be exchanged with the web server in an encrypted form, consequently an unauthorized third-party will not be able to see it. An SSL certificate will increase the security of your Internet site and shall make it more attractive to consumers, but besides the cost for the SSL, you have to spend more funds for a dedicated IP address, that is usually required for the SSL installation. In case you run a small e-commerce portal and your budget is tight or you are a part of a non-profit organization and you could find better use for the money, you could avoid the added expense by making use of our services given that our cloud hosting platform supports SSL certificates not only on a dedicated IP address, but also on a shared one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you acquire it from us or from another seller and regardless of the cloud hosting service which you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL through us, you'll come across this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you can also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is chosen inside the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specially configured server shared IP, thus once you order and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the cash you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any information the site visitors submit will be encrypted. The one difference is that if you input the shared IP address instead of your domain inside a browser, the site will not show up.