If you'd like to protect the information that visitors submit on your Internet site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encode any info exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the data is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter if you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big revenue, so to save you the cash, our cloud web 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, regardless if you purchase it from us or from a different dealer and regardless of the cloud hosting service that you have on our end. If you get the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP, therefore once you order and approve the SSL, there won't be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the money you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall do the job in the exact same way, so any info the visitors submit will be encoded. The one difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain in an Internet browser, the website shall not appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host a site within a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you would like to preserve the information of your site visitors, you shall be able to use a shared IP 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 shall find within the Hepsia hosting CP and you can even select the certificate to be installed for the specific domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be set up for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the opportunity to secure the info of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the info in any way. The one main difference from using a dedicated address is that your website shall not accessible if you type the shared IP address rather than the domain/subdomain in the browser address bar.