If you would like to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation refers to Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encode any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any data, 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 real content, thus if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card details, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the data is protected. Usually a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your site. The additional cost may matter if you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not generate a big revenue, 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 Shared Hosting

You can use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with each shared hosting plan that we offer and irrespective if the SSL is acquired through our company or through a third-party company. If the SSL is purchased on our end, not only could you select the shared IP to be set during the order, but you can also pick our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will handle the installation for you within a matter of seconds and you'll not have to do anything by hand. The one difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your Internet site will not appear in the event that you try to open https://the-IP-address rather than https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be the same. With this function you can protect the data of your customers and have a secure Internet site without the additional 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 wish to secure the information of your site visitors, you shall be able to use a shared IP address that has been configured for SSL certificates with only several mouse clicks. You can select this option inside the SSL order wizard which you shall find in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you can even select the certificate to be installed for the given domain or subdomain automatically by our system. In this way everything could be installed for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to secure the information of your website users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encode the data in any way. The sole main difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site shall not accessible if you input the shared IP as opposed to the domain/subdomain within the web browser address bar.