If you would like to protect the data which visitors submit on your site, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the actual content, therefore 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 will be an assurance that the data is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small web store, a non-profit organization or any other entity which does not generate a big revenue, 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 Shared Hosting

You could use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with each shared hosting plan which we offer and no matter if the SSL is purchased through our company or through a third-party vendor. If the SSL is obtained on our end, not only will you be able to select 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 set it up for you within a matter of seconds and you won't need to do anything yourself. The sole difference between employing a shared IP address and a dedicated one is that your site won't appear in case you try to open https://the-IP-address rather than https://your-domain-name, but other than that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you can protect the information of your customers and have a secure Internet site without the added expense for a dedicated IP.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host a website in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you would like to secure the info of your visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP address which has been configured for SSL certificates with only a few clicks. You can choose this option inside the SSL order wizard which you shall find inside the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even choose the certificate to be installed for the specific domain or subdomain automatically by our system. In this way everything could be installed for you on the shared IP the minute you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to protect the info of your website 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 website won't be accessible if you input the shared IP instead of the domain/subdomain in the web browser address bar.