If you'd like to protect the information which visitors submit on your site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's 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 info, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the real content, and so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and goods online and customers submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is secure. Typically a dedicated IP address is required to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional expense may matter when you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate 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 Shared Website Hosting

You'll be able to use a shared IP for an SSL certificate with each shared website hosting package which we offer and no matter if the SSL is purchased through our company or through a third-party firm. If the SSL is purchased on our end, not only could you choose the shared IP to be set during the order, but you can also pick our auto-configuration option, so as soon as you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will set it up for you within a few seconds and you will not have to do anything manually. The sole difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your site won't appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address as opposed to https://your-domain-name, but other than that, everything will be identical. With this feature you could protect the info of your clients and have a reliable site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP address.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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