If you wish to protect the information which visitors submit on your Internet site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any data exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the information is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional expense may matter when you run a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not make a big income, 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 Shared Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you get it from us or from another vendor and regardless of the shared hosting plan that you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL through us, you shall discover this option on the certificate order page in your hosting CP where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you via the specially configured server shared IP, therefore once you acquire and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You could save the money that you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will do the job in the same exact way, so any data the website visitors submit will be encrypted. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name inside a browser, the site shall not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host a website within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you wish to protect the information of your site visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with a couple of mouse clicks. You can choose this option inside the SSL order wizard which you shall find inside the Hepsia hosting CP and you can even choose the certificate to be set up for the given domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything could be installed for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we give you the opportunity to protect the data 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 main difference from using a dedicated address is that your site won't be accessible if you type the shared IP rather than the domain/subdomain within the Internet browser address bar.