If you'd like to protect the data that visitors submit on your Internet site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products and services online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big revenue, 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 Hosting

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

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host a site inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you would like to protect the data of your site visitors, you shall be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with just a few mouse clicks. You can select this option in the SSL order wizard that you will find within the Hepsia hosting CP and you could even choose the certificate to be set up for the specific domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be installed for you on the shared IP as soon as you approve the SSL. With this service we give you the chance to secure the info of your Internet site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encrypt the data in any way. The one difference from using a dedicated address is that your website will not be accessible if you input the shared IP address as opposed to the domain/subdomain inside the Internet browser address bar.