If you wish to protect the information that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and this is a protocol employed to encode 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 current level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the real content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and customers submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate shall be a guarantee that the info is protected. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter in case you run a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big profit, 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 Cloud Web Hosting

You could use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with every single cloud web hosting plan we offer and irrespective if the SSL is purchased through us or through a third-party vendor. If the SSL is acquired on our end, not only could you pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also choose our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will do the installation for you within a couple of seconds and you'll not have to do anything manually. The one difference between employing a shared IP address and a dedicated one is that your Internet site won't appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address as opposed to https://your-domain-name, but aside from that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you'll be able to protect the information of your clients and have a risk-free site without the added expense for a dedicated IP address.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host a site in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you wish to preserve the info of your visitors, you'll 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 inside the SSL order wizard which you'll find inside the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even select the certificate to be installed for the particular domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That 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 chance to preserve the data of your Internet site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encode the information in any way. The only big difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site shall not accessible if you enter the shared IP address instead of the domain/subdomain in the web browser address bar.