If you would like to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to 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 individual intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the real content, therefore if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the information is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional cost may matter in case you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't make a big profit, 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 used for any SSL certificate, no matter if you acquire it from our company or from a different retailer and regardless of the cloud hosting package which you have on our end. If you get the SSL through us, you shall find this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also take full advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer you. If the latter is picked inside 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 shall 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 shall do the job in the same exact way, so any data the site visitors submit shall be encrypted. The one difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name inside a browser, the website will not appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host a website inside a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you'd like to protect the information of your website visitors, you shall be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with just several mouse clicks. You can pick this option inside the SSL order wizard which you shall find in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you could even select the certificate to be set up for the given domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. This way everything could be set up for you on the shared IP as soon as you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to preserve the data of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encrypt the data in any way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site will not be accessible if you type the shared IP instead of the domain/subdomain inside the Internet browser address bar.