Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you are able to add some content to various pages in your site and alter it by just updating just one text file. You're able to furthermore add the output of different scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file show up on your site. This shall allow you to add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more appealing to your website visitors and creating a more professional overall look. It will also be simpler to update this content as compared to editing each static page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud hosting plans we offer and enable it separately for every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be achieved by using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy it, since you don't need any coding capabilities to benefit from all of the functions that our services have. If you have by now built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.