When you host a website on a server, it uses the server's shared IP - a unique number that is used to detect a device connected to the Web. The website name which you use for the website is for easy accessibility and convenience of the site visitors, but on a lower level, their web browser connects to the IP of the server. As there are far more sites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use the very same IP for a number of sites even if they are owned by different users. Even though this doesn't affect your website performance directly, using a dedicated IP can slightly increase the loading speed of a certain site, granting it superior positions in search engine results. Such an IP is required for the setup of an SSL certificate too, so if you wish to secure the payment or login info that your website visitors type in, you need an IP in addition to the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Shared Hosting
If you use any of our shared hosting packages, you will be able to add a dedicated IP address to your account without difficulty and assign it to a domain or subdomain with no more than a few clicks. This is valid whichever data center you've picked for the account during the sign-up process, therefore you're 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 website, for instance, while a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP as you can edit each domain or subdomain separately from the Hosted Domains part of your Hepsia Control Panel. If you would like a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you obtain the SSL through our company, you can use our auto-configuration instrument, which will assign an IP and set up the SSL automatically for the site where you'd like to use them.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you have a semi-dedicated server account, adding your new dedicated IP address takes no more than a couple of clicks. Our Hepsia Control Panel is very easy and intuitive to use, so even when you have not had a website hosting account before, you won't experience any kind of difficulties to order and assign a dedicated IP address. Any domain or subdomain in the account can use its own IP address rather than the server's shared one and you can make this change inside the Hosted Domains section, where you can also find all IPs that your sites can use as well as if a dedicated IP is free or you're already using it. If you'd like to have an IP for an SSL certificate, we have an SSL order instrument through which you will be able to select everything to be installed automatically. With this feature, our system will modify the IP of the desired domain/subdomain to a dedicated one and it will set up your certificate in a matter of minutes, so you shall not have to do anything on your end except for approving your SSL order through e-mail.
Dedicated IP Address in VPS Servers
If you buy a VPS server from us, you'll get one dedicated IP address automatically and an extra one if you acquire a web hosting Control Panel (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin). You'll be able to use the IP addresses for any kind of purpose - a website, some web app such as a VOIP server, even for private name servers that you're able to use to point to your VPS any website which you would like to host. You may also add more dedicated IP addresses to the VPS account any time you need them. You can do this from the billing Control Panel that you will obtain so as to control renewals, upgrade purchases and domain registrations and it will take only a couple of clicks. Soon after you submit your order, the additional IP addresses will be available, so you're able to use them the way you like.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers
All of the Linux dedicated servers that we supply come with 3 dedicated IP addresses by default and free of charge. You will be able to use them for any type of purpose depending on the content that you have on the server - a video game server or a Voice-Over-IP application, an SSL certificate for a site that you host, private name servers for a reseller domain which your customers may use to redirect domains to their web hosting accounts, and much more. You can also purchase extra dedicated IPs from the Upgrades section of your billing Control Panel in case you need more than the ones which come with the plan. You're able to acquire the IPs in sets of three and they shall be added to your dedicated server soon after you send your order, so you can start using them without any delays.