If you want to protect the data which visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the data is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter if you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't generate a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, irrespective if you purchase it from our company or from some other seller and regardless of the cloud hosting service which you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you shall find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer. If the latter is picked in the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you via the specifically configured server shared IP, therefore once you obtain and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the funds that you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL will work in the exact same way, so any info the visitors submit shall be encoded. The only difference is that if you enter the shared IP address instead of your domain in an Internet browser, the site won't appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host a site within a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you wish to protect the info of your website visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with only a few mouse clicks. You can pick this option within the SSL order wizard that you'll find in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even pick the certificate to be installed for the given domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything could be set up for you on the shared IP the minute you approve the SSL. With this service we give you the opportunity to secure the data of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the data in any way. The sole main difference from using a dedicated address is that your website won't be accessible if you input the shared IP instead of the domain/subdomain within the web browser address bar.