If you want 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's a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the authentic content, thus if you have a login form of some type or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall 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 cost may matter in case you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big profit, 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.
Shared SSL IP in Cloud Web Hosting
You will be able to use this option with all of our cloud web hosting packages and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. If you choose to work with an SSL from our company, everything will be set up automatically and you won't have to do anything after you purchase 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 no more than two additional clicks after you fill the needed data for the certificate. The proper operation of the SSL won't be affected in any way and any data that visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The only big difference from employing a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your Internet site, but it is unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it in this way as opposed to typing your domain within the world-wide web browser URL bar.