If you would 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's a protocol used to encrypt any data exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, thus 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 will be a guarantee that the information is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter when you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not generate a big profit, so to save you the money, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Website Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you purchase it from us or from some other vendor and regardless of the shared website hosting service you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL from us, you'll find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer you. If the latter is picked in the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you via the specially configured server shared IP, 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 money you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall work in the same exact way, so any data that the visitors submit shall be encoded. The sole difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain in an Internet browser, the website will not display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host a site in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you'd like to secure the data of your site visitors, you will be able to use a shared IP address which has been configured for SSL certificates with just a couple of mouse clicks. You can choose this option within the SSL order wizard which you will 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. In this way everything could be installed for you on the shared IP as soon as you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to secure the information of your Internet site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encrypt the information in any way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that your website will not be accessible if you enter the shared IP as opposed to the domain/subdomain within the web browser address bar.