If you host a website on a server, it employs the server's shared IP address - a special number which is used to identify any device connected to the World Wide Web. The website name which you use for the site is for easy access and convenience of the website visitors, but on a lower level, their browser connects to the IP address of the server. Because there're far more sites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use a single IP for several websites even if they belong to separate users. While this does not affect the site performance directly, using a dedicated IP can slightly increase the loading speed of a certain website, granting it higher positions in search engine results. Such an IP is required for the setup of an SSL certificate as well, so if you want to protect the payment or login data that your website visitors type in, you'll need an IP in addition to the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Shared Hosting
When you use a shared hosting account on our cloud platform, you're able to get a dedicated IP and assign it to any domain or subdomain with a couple of clicks no matter where your account is - in the United States, the UK or Australia. This can be done from the Hosted Domains part of our intuitive and user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel where you may also monitor what IPs are available, what are in use and what websites they're allotted to. When you want to use an SSL certificate so as to protect the info of your website visitors and you obtain it through our company, our system can assign a dedicated IP and install the SSL for you, so you will not have to do anything manually on your end. In the meantime, you can still have a website in a subdomain as an addition to the main one under a shared IP address - a message board where users can share opinions about your services, for example.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you get a semi-dedicated server account through us, you have the opportunity to acquire as many dedicated IPs as you would like depending on your preferences. It will take just a couple of clicks in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to buy a new IP and a few more in order to assign it to a domain or a subdomain. The process is very simple and your site will start loading from the new IP address in no time. Hepsia will allow you to see all the IP addresses which you're able to use, both shared & dedicated, and which of the latter are free or taken. Provided you want to use an SSL certificate on any of your websites and you need a dedicated IP for it, you may take advantage of our SSL order wizard, which will assign a new IP and set up the certificate once you send your order, so you don't have to adjust anything in your semi-dedicated hosting account by yourself.
Dedicated IP Address in VPS Hosting
All of our Linux VPS hosting services come with one dedicated IP by default and if you pick a website hosting Control Panel (cPanel, Hepsia) throughout the registration process, you will acquire an extra one too without charge. You can employ them as you see fit - to access online content, to manage a web app, to install an SSL certificate, or even to register private name servers for any domain that you have and use the latter for any other website that you wish to host on the server. The billing Control Panel where you are able to manage all the plan renewals, upgrades and domain registrations will enable you to order extra dedicated IPs when you need them for any purpose. Just a couple of minutes later the IPs will be assigned to your Virtual Server and you will be able to use them straight away.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Web Hosting
Because all of our Linux dedicated hosting services offer 3 dedicated IP addresses included in the plans by default, we shall give you a serious advantage if you want to run any software that requires this kind of an IP. We supply them for free and you will be able to use them for as long as you use the server for anything you would like - child name servers for any domain name which you host, an SSL certificate for any site on your server, a software server (online games, VOIP), etcetera. Using the Upgrades menu in the billing Control Panel that you'll obtain to control renewals, service upgrades and domain registrations, you can also get more dedicated IP addresses in sets of three whenever you want. They'll be assigned to your server within a few minutes, so that you can start using them for your websites and web-based applications without delay.