What is Shared SSL?

What is Shared SSL?:
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a way of protecting sensitive data transferred through a web browser. If your web site deals with eCommerce transactions or collects personal information from your visitors, we strongly suggest setting up your website to support SSL. Most good web hosts include a shared SSL certificate in their hosting plans, while some may charge extra. Shared SSL is usually set up in one of the following ways:

1. Wild card certificate pointing at the customer's document root:
In this case the user is assigned a subdomain (usually their username) to be used with their main domain to point to the root of their web hosting account directory. All links pointing to this subdomain (along with the https:// prefix as opposed to the http:// prefix) will instruct the web server and web browser to use SSL.

Example:
https://user1.mydomain.com/.....(secure)
http://www.mydomain.com/.....(not secure)


2. Standard certificate using a user directory path:
In this case the user is assigned a directory path in which they would place their secure documents.

Example:
https://www..webhostdomain.com/user1.....(secure)
http://www.mydomain.com/.....(not secure)