If you wish to protect the info which visitors submit on your Internet site, you will require an SSL certificate. The abbreviation is short for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any information exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it practically impossible to decrypt the authentic content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer goods and services online and customers submit credit card information, using an SSL certificate shall be an assurance that the information 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 if you manage a small online store, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big profit, so to save you the money, our cloud web hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Website Hosting

You could use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with every cloud website hosting package that we offer and regardless if the SSL is bought through our company or through a third-party firm. If the SSL is purchased on our end, not only can you choose the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also pick our auto-configuration option, so as soon as you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system shall do the installation for you within a couple of seconds and you'll not have to do anything yourself. The sole difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your site will not appear if you try to open https://the-IP-address instead of https://your-domain-name, but apart from that, everything shall be identical. With this feature you can protect the info of your clients and have a secure Internet site without the additional expense for a dedicated IP address.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host a site in 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 that has been configured for SSL certificates with several 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 set up for the particular domain or subdomain automatically by our system. In this way everything could be set up for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to protect the information of your Internet site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encrypt the data in any way. The one main difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site won't be accessible if you enter the shared IP address rather than the domain/subdomain within the Internet browser address bar.