If you host a site on a server, it uses the server's shared IP - a special number that is used to identify any device connected to the World Wide Web. The website name which you use for the site is for easy accessibility and convenience of the site visitors, but on a lower level, their Internet browser connects to the IP of the server. Because there are far more sites than IP addresses, shared web hosting servers use a single IP for many different sites even if they belong to separate users. Even though this does not affect your site performance directly, using a dedicated IP may slightly boost the loading speed of a particular website, granting it higher rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is essential for the setup of an SSL certificate too, so if you would like to secure the payment or login data that your site visitors type in, you will need an IP in addition to the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Shared Hosting
If you use some of our shared hosting packages, you can add a dedicated IP to your account without difficulty and assign it to a domain or subdomain with no more than a few clicks. This is valid no matter which data center you've picked for your account throughout the signup process, thus you are able to use this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. In this way, you can have a dedicated IP for an electronic commerce site, for instance, while a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP as you can adjust each domain or subdomain independently through the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel. If you would like a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you obtain the SSL from us, you will be able to use our auto-configuration instrument, which will assign an IP and set up the SSL automatically for the website where you would like to use them.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you have a semi-dedicated server account, adding your new dedicated IP takes only a couple of clicks. Our Hepsia Control Panel is very easy and intuitive to use, so even if you have not had a website hosting account previously, you will not experience any difficulties to acquire and assign a dedicated IP address. Any domain or subdomain inside the account can use its own IP rather than the server's shared one and you'll be able to make this change from the Hosted Domains section, where you'll also view all IPs that your websites can use as well as if a dedicated IP is accessible or you are already using it. If you want an IP for an SSL certificate, we have an SSL order tool through which you can select everything to be installed automatically. Using this feature, our system will modify the IP of the desired domain/subdomain to a dedicated one and it'll install the certificate in a matter of minutes, so you won't have to do anything on your end except for approving your SSL request via electronic mail.
Dedicated IP Address in VPS Servers
If you purchase a VPS server from us, you will be given one dedicated IP address automatically and another one if you acquire a hosting Control Panel (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin). You are able to use the IP addresses for any purpose - a website, some web app such as a VOIP server, even for private name servers that you'll be able to use to point to your VPS any website which you would like to host. You can also add extra dedicated IP addresses to the VPS account any time you need them. You can do this through the billing Control Panel that you will receive in order to manage renewals, upgrades and domain registrations and it takes no more than a few clicks. Soon after you send your order, the extra IP addresses will be available, so you can use them as you see fit.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers
All the Linux dedicated servers that we provide include three dedicated IP addresses as standard and absolutely free. You'll be able to employ them for any type of purpose based on the content that you have on the server - a video game server or a Voice-Over-IP application, an SSL certificate for a website that you host, private name servers for a reseller domain that your customers can use to redirect domains to their web hosting accounts, and many more. You can also get more dedicated IP addresses through the Upgrades section of your billing Control Panel in case you need more than the ones that come with the server. You can acquire the IPs in sets of three and they'll be added to your dedicated server shortly after you send your order, which means that you can use them with no delays.