If you wish to protect the data that visitors submit on your website, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the real content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the information is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional expense may matter if you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not generate 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 Hosting

A shared IP can be used for any SSL certificate, regardless if you purchase it from us or from another vendor and regardless of the cloud hosting plan you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL through us, you shall discover this option on the certificate order page within your hosting Control Panel where you could also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer. If the latter is picked inside the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you using the specifically configured server shared IP address, so once you buy 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 and the SSL shall function in the exact same way, so any data that the website visitors submit will be encoded. The only difference is that if you enter the shared IP address instead of your domain name in an Internet browser, the Internet site won't appear.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host a site inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you would like to protect the data of your visitors, you shall be able to use a shared IP that has been configured for SSL certificates with only a few mouse clicks. You can choose this option within the SSL order wizard that you shall find within the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even select the certificate to be set up for the particular domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be set up for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the opportunity to preserve the info of your Internet site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encrypt the data in any way. The one difference from using a dedicated address is that your website will not be accessible if you input the shared IP address as opposed to the domain/subdomain in the web browser address bar.