If you would like to protect the information that visitors submit on your Internet site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between a website and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any data, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, and so if you have a login form of some kind or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the info is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter in case you manage a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big income, so to save you the money, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Website Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, no matter if you get it from our company or from some other retailer and regardless of the cloud website hosting package which you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you shall come across this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting Control Panel where you can also make use of the 1-click automatic configuration option which we offer. If the latter is picked in the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you via the specially configured server shared IP address, thus once you obtain and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You'll be able to save the funds that you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL will do the job in the exact same way, so any information which the website 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 site won't display.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host an Internet site within a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you wish to secure the data of your site visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with only a few mouse clicks. You can choose this option inside the SSL order wizard that you shall find in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you could even choose the certificate to be installed for the specific domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything could be installed for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the chance to secure the data of your website users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the information in any way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that your website will not be accessible if you type the shared IP instead of the domain/subdomain within the browser address bar.