Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is a protocol used to encode the data exchanged between a server and its users. The practical application of employing an SSL is to secure the information that clients submit on your website - a login page, a payment page if you run an online store, and so forth. Any content they input in any box on the Internet site shall be submitted safely and securely to the server, so their login or payment details will be protected from being accessed by unauthorized people. Usually, an SSL certificate needs a dedicated IP address to be set up, meaning that the overall cost for your web presence will be bigger. While this might not exactly be an issue for a larger business, it might matter for a non-profit organization or a small web store which doesn't generate big earnings if additional money should be spent. That's the key reason why we've taken advantage of an extension referred to as Server Name Indication (SNI) and we have made it possible to use a shared server IP address to install an SSL certificate.

Shared SSL IP in Cloud Hosting

A shared IP can be employed for any SSL certificate, regardless if you get it from us or from a different dealer and regardless of the cloud hosting plan that you have on our end. If you acquire the SSL from us, you shall discover this option on the certificate order page within your hosting CP where you can also take advantage of the 1-click automatic configuration option we offer. If the latter is picked inside the SSL order wizard, our system shall install and set up everything for you using the specially configured server shared IP, so once you acquire and approve the SSL, there will not be anything else to do on your end. You can save the funds you will otherwise need to pay for a dedicated IP and the SSL shall function in the exact same way, so any data which the website visitors submit will be encoded. The one difference is that if you input the shared IP instead of your domain name inside a browser, the Internet site shall not show up.

Shared SSL IP in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host a site in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and you wish to secure the information of your website visitors, you will be able to use a shared IP address which has been configured for SSL certificates with just several mouse clicks. You can select this option within the SSL order wizard which you shall find in the Hepsia hosting CP and you could even select the certificate to be set up for the specific domain name or subdomain automatically by our system. This 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 chance to preserve the data of your website users at no additional cost and without affecting the way the SSL will encrypt the information in any way. The sole main difference from using a dedicated address is that your website won't be accessible if you enter the shared IP address instead of the domain/subdomain inside the web browser address bar.