If you want to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you'll need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that's a protocol employed to encrypt any data exchanged between a site and its users as to ensure that even if an unauthorized person intercepts any information, they will not be able to read or use it in any way. The present level of encryption makes it pretty much 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 shall be a guarantee that the data is secure. Usually a dedicated IP address is needed to install an SSL, which will increase the cost to maintain your Internet site. The additional cost may matter if you run a small online shop, a non-profit organization or any other entity that does not make a big income, so to save you the funds, our cloud website hosting platform supports installing an SSL certificate on a shared server IP address, not a dedicated one.
Shared SSL IP in Hosting
You can use a shared IP address for an SSL certificate with every hosting solution which we offer and irrespective if the SSL is obtained through our company or through a third-party business. If the SSL is acquired on our end, not only could you pick the shared IP to be set during the order, but you could also select our auto-configuration option, so when you complete the purchase and approve the certificate, our system will install it for you within a couple of seconds and you'll not need to do anything by hand. The sole difference between using a shared IP and a dedicated one is that your website won't 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 identical. With this function you could protect the information of your customers and have a reliable site without the extra expense for a dedicated IP.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host a site within a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you'd like to protect the information of your site visitors, you will be able to use a shared IP which has been configured for SSL certificates with only a few mouse clicks. You can select this option within the SSL order wizard which you will find inside the Hepsia hosting CP and you can even select the certificate to be installed for the particular domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. That way everything can be installed for you on the shared IP as soon as you approve the SSL. With this service we grant you the opportunity to preserve the information of your website users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the information in any way. The one big difference from using a dedicated address is that your Internet site will not be accessible if you enter the shared IP address as opposed to the domain/subdomain in the web browser address bar.