When you host a site on a server, it uses the server's shared IP - a unique number which is used to identify any kind of device connected to the World Wide Web. The domain name which you use for the site is for easy access and convenience of the site visitors, but on a more basic level, their web browser connects to the IP address of the server. Because there are many more websites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use the same IP for a variety of websites even if they are owned by different users. While this doesn't affect your site performance directly, having a dedicated IP may slightly improve the loading speed of a particular site, providing it superior positions in search engine results. Such an IP is necessary for the installation of an SSL certificate too, so when you plan to protect the payment or login details that your site visitors enter, you should have an IP along with the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Hosting
If you use some of our hosting plans, you'll be able to add a dedicated IP address to your account without any difficulty and assign it to a domain or subdomain with no more than a few clicks. This is valid whichever data center you have picked for your account throughout the signup process, so it's possible to take advantage of this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. This way, you can have a dedicated IP for an electronic commerce website, for example, whereas a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP because you can adjust each domain or subdomain independently through the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel. If you'd like a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you obtain the SSL from us, you are able to use the auto-configuration instrument, which will assign an IP and set up the SSL automatically for the site where you want to use them.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case 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 simple and intuitive to use, so even when you have not had a web hosting account previously, you won't experience any difficulties to get and assign a dedicated IP. Every domain or subdomain inside the account can use its own IP other than the server's shared one and you'll be able to make this change inside the Hosted Domains section, where you can also find all IPs that your websites can use as well as if a dedicated IP is free or you are already using it. If you need an IP for an SSL certificate, we have an SSL order tool through which you are able to select everything to be installed automatically. With this particular feature, our system will modify the IP of the desired domain/subdomain to a dedicated one and it'll install the certificate within minutes, so you won't need to do anything on your end except for approving your SSL order through e-mail.
Dedicated IP Address in VPS Servers
All of our VPS servers include one dedicated IP as standard and if you choose a web hosting Control Panel (Hepsia, cPanel) throughout the signup process, you'll get an extra one too absolutely free. You will be able to use them as you decide - to access web content, to manage a web application, to set up an SSL certificate, or even to register private name servers for any domain that you have and use the latter for any other domain that you intend to host on your server. The billing Control Panel where you can take care of all of the plan renewals, upgrades as well as domain name registrations will enable you to order extra dedicated IP addresses if you need them for any purpose. A couple of minutes later the IPs will be assigned to your Virtual Server and you can use them right away.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers
All the dedicated servers that we provide feature three dedicated IP addresses by default and for free. You are able to use them for any type of purpose according to the content that you have on your server - a game server or a Voice-Over-IP application, an SSL certificate for a website that you host, private name servers for a reseller domain which your clients may use to direct domain names to their hosting accounts, and many other things. What's more, you can purchase extra dedicated IPs through the Upgrades part of your billing Control Panel if you need more than the ones that come with the plan. You're able to acquire the IPs in sets of three and they will be added to your dedicated server soon after you send your order, so you can start using them without delays.