If you want to protect the data which visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol used to encrypt any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the real content, so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the information is secure. Normally 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 when you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big profit, so to save you the funds, 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 Web Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from our company or from some other vendor and regardless of the cloud web hosting service that you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you will 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 which we offer you. If the latter is chosen in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specifically configured server shared IP address, thus once you order and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the funds you'll otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall do the job in the same exact way, so any data which the website visitors submit will be encrypted. The one difference is that if you enter the shared IP instead of your domain in a web browser, the site will not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host a site in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you wish to preserve the info of your site visitors, you will be able to use a shared IP that has been configured for SSL certificates with just a couple of clicks. You can select this option in the SSL order wizard that you shall find inside 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 can be installed for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we give you the chance to protect 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 only main difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site will not be accessible if you enter the shared IP rather than the domain/subdomain inside the browser address bar.