If you want to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any info exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any information, they shall not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it pretty much impossible to decrypt the authentic content, therefore if you have a login form of some kind or you offer services and goods online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be a guarantee that the info is secure. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your website. The additional expense may matter when you manage a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity which doesn't generate a big revenue, so to save you the funds, our cloud hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.

Shared SSL IP in Shared Web Hosting

A shared IP could be employed for any SSL certificate, regardless if you get it from us or from another seller and regardless of the shared web hosting service which you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you will find this option on the certificate order page inside your hosting Control Panel where you could also take full advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer you. If the latter is chosen inside the SSL order wizard, our system will install and set up everything for you through the specifically configured server shared IP address, thus once you acquire and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the money that you'll otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP address and the SSL shall do the job in the same exact way, so any data the visitors submit shall be encoded. The only difference is that if you type the shared IP instead of your domain in a browser, the site shall not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host a website inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you wish to protect the info of your site visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP address which has been configured for SSL certificates with a few mouse clicks. You can select this option inside the SSL order wizard which you will find inside the Hepsia hosting CP and you could even select the certificate to be installed for the particular domain or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be set up for you on the shared IP the moment you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the opportunity to secure the info of your site users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encode the info in any way. The sole difference from using a dedicated address is that your site won't be accessible if you input the shared IP address as opposed to the domain/subdomain inside the web browser address bar.