If you'd like to protect the data that visitors submit on your Internet site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encrypt any info exchanged between a website and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The current level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, thus if you have a login form of some type or you offer services and products online and customers 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 expense may matter in case you run a small web shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that doesn't make 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 Hosting

Since we offer SSL certificates with our cloud hosting packages, you can very easily secure your website and use a shared IP address with only a couple of clicks. The option shall be available during the order process, thus if you have a dedicated IP address, you can use it, but if you don't have one and you don't want to pay for this sort of a service, you'll be able to use the shared IP, that has been set up specifically for SSLs. The certificate shall work in the very same way as if it had a dedicated IP address and the sole difference shall be that if someone tries to open the IP address as a URL, they will not see your website. Since our system comes with an auto-configuration option, the SSL will be installed automatically the moment it's issued, so you shall not need to do anything on your end after you approve it. That way, you'll be able to have a risk-free and trustworthy website without having to spend extra cash for that.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host a site in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you would like to preserve the information of your site visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP that has been configured for SSL certificates with only several mouse clicks. You can select this option inside the SSL order wizard that you'll find in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you could even select the certificate to be set up for the particular domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. In this way everything could be set up for you on the shared IP as soon as you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the chance to preserve the data of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encrypt the data in any way. The one difference from using a dedicated address is that your website will not be accessible if you enter the shared IP address rather than the domain/subdomain within the browser address bar.