If you would like to protect the info that visitors submit on your website, you need an SSL certificate. The abbreviation stands for Secure Sockets Layer and that is a protocol used to encode any information exchanged between an Internet site and its users as to guarantee that even if an unauthorized individual intercepts any info, they'll not be able to read or use it in any way. The existing level of encryption makes it virtually impossible to decrypt the actual content, so if you have a login form of some sort or you offer services and products online and clients submit credit card info, using an SSL certificate will be an assurance that the info is protected. Normally a dedicated IP address is needed 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 which does not generate a big profit, so to save you the money, our cloud 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 shall be able to use this option with all of our shared website hosting solutions and with any SSL certificate issued from any dealer. When you decide to work with an SSL from our company, everything will be arrange automatically and you will not have to do anything after you purchase and approve the certificate. The SSL order wizard will allow you to select a shared IP address to be used and the SSL to be set up by our system, so using this feature requires no more than 2 additional clicks after you fill the necessary information for the certificate. The adequate operation of the SSL will not be influenced in any way and any details that visitors submit on your website shall be encrypted and protected in the same exact way. The sole difference from working with a dedicated address is that http:// will not open your website, but it is extremely unlikely that anybody will ever try to access it this way as opposed to entering your domain name in the world-wide web browser URL bar.
Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host a site within a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company and you would like to protect the information of your website visitors, you'll be able to use a shared IP which has been configured for SSL certificates with just a few mouse clicks. You can select this option in the SSL order wizard that you will find within the Hepsia hosting CP and you could even pick the certificate to be set up for the given domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. This way everything could be set up for you on the shared IP the minute you approve the SSL. With this service we offer you the opportunity to protect the info of your website users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL shall encode the information in any way. The only difference from using a dedicated address is that your site will not be accessible if you enter the shared IP address as opposed to the domain/subdomain within the Internet browser address bar.