If you'd like to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol used to encode any information exchanged between a 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 current level of encryption makes it literally impossible to decrypt the real content, thus if you have a login form of some sort or you offer products 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 Internet site. The additional cost may matter if you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big revenue, so to save you the cash, 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, regardless if you acquire it from our company or from a different vendor and regardless of the shared hosting service that you have on our end. If you obtain the SSL from us, you shall come across this option on the certificate order page in your hosting Control Panel where you could also take full advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option that we offer you. If the latter is chosen within the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you via the specifically configured server shared IP address, thus once you obtain and approve the SSL, there shall not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the money you will otherwise have to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall do the job in the same exact way, so any info which the site visitors submit shall be encrypted. The only difference is that if you type the shared IP instead of your domain inside a web browser, the site will not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host a site within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you'd like to preserve the information of your visitors, you will be able to use a shared IP that has been configured for SSL certificates with a couple of mouse clicks. You can select this option in the SSL order wizard that you'll find within the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even select the certificate to be set up for the particular domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be installed for you on the shared IP the minute you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the opportunity to secure the data of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the data in any way. The only big difference from using a dedicated address is that your website won't be accessible if you enter the shared IP address rather than the domain/subdomain within the browser address bar.