When you host a website on a server, it uses the server's shared IP - a unique number that is used to distinguish a device connected to the Net. The website name that you use for the website is for easy access and convenience of the visitors, but on a more basic level, their web browser connects to the IP of the server. As there're many more sites 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 does not affect your website performance directly, using a dedicated IP may slightly increase the loading speed of a given site, granting it better rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is essential for the installation of an SSL certificate too, so if you want to secure the payment or login info that your site visitors enter, you will need an IP together with the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Shared Hosting
If you use some of our shared hosting plans, you will be able to add a dedicated IP address to your account with ease and assign it to a domain or subdomain with just a couple of clicks. This is valid whichever data center you have picked for the account throughout the signup process, therefore you can take full advantage of this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. This way, you can have a dedicated IP for an electronic commerce site, for example, whereas a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP as you can modify each and every 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 get the SSL through our company, you are able to use the auto-configuration instrument, that will assign an IP and set up the SSL automatically for the site where you wish to use them.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers
With just a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to add one or several dedicated IP addresses to your semi-dedicated server and assign them to your websites. The Hosted Domains section of Hepsia will allow you to view the available IPs and to monitor those which are in use in no time. Provided you want to acquire a new IP for an SSL certificate, you're able to use the auto-configuration function, that is available in our SSL order wizard. When you enable this option, you will not have to do anything after you submit your order because our system will request a dedicated IP address, assign it to the domain or subdomain involved, and then set up the SSL certificate - all this automatically and without the need of any action on your end. That way, you'll be able to shield the information that visitors upload on your site even if you don't have any previous experience with this type of matters.
Dedicated IP Address in VPS Servers
All of our Linux VPS plans feature one dedicated IP by default and if you choose a hosting Control Panel (Hepsia, DirectAdmin, cPanel) throughout the registration process, you'll obtain an extra one as well completely free. You are able to use them as you decide - to access website content, to manage a web app, to install an SSL certificate, or even to register private name servers for any website which you have and use the latter for any other website that you want to host on the server. The billing Control Panel where you will be able to take care of all the plan renewals, upgrades and domain registrations will allow you to order more dedicated IP addresses when 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 straight away.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers
All Linux dedicated web hosting plans that we offer include three dedicated IP addresses as standard and absolutely free. You'll be able to employ them for any kind of purpose according to the content that you have on the server - an online game server or a Voice-Over-IP app, an SSL certificate for a site that you host, private name servers for a reseller domain that your clients can use to point domain names to their web hosting accounts, and many more. You'll also be able to order additional dedicated IP addresses through the Upgrades part of your billing Control Panel in case you need more than the ones which come with the server. You're able to obtain the IPs in sets of three and they will be added to your dedicated server right after you send your order, so you can use them without any delays.