When you host a website on a server, it employs the server's shared IP address - a unique number which is used to distinguish any kind of device connected to the Net. The domain name that you use for the site is for easy access and convenience of the website visitors, but on a more basic level, their web browser connects to the IP of the server. Since there're many more sites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use a single IP for multiple sites even in case they belong to several users. Even though this does not affect the site performance directly, having a dedicated IP may slightly enhance the loading speed of a certain website, giving it superior positions in search engine results. Such an IP is required for the installation of an SSL certificate too, so if you want to protect the payment or login data that your site visitors enter, you should have an IP in addition to the SSL.
Dedicated IP Address in Cloud Web Hosting
We provide dedicated IP addresses with all of our cloud web hosting plans irrespective of the data center location and you can purchase one or several IPs via your Hepsia Control Panel. An additional section will show up as part of your account and you'll be able to request, view or delete your IPs with several clicks. You can decide what number of domains or subdomains will use a given IP as you can assign one with a few clicks to every hostname. For instance, www.domain.com can be your main site, that uses a server's shared IP, and shop.domain.com can be a subdomain where you offer services or goods on the web and it might have a dedicated IP together with an SSL certificate. You can switch the IP which a domain uses through the Hosted Domains section where you can also keep track which IPs are in use and which ones are available. You can also set a few of your websites to use the same dedicated IP given that there's no SSL activated for it.
Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you acquire a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll have the option to acquire as many dedicated IP addresses as you need depending on the needs you have. It will take just a couple of clicks inside the Hepsia hosting Control Panel to buy your new IP and several more in order to assign it to a domain or a subdomain. The whole process is very easy and your site will start opening from your new IP address very quickly. Hepsia will allow you to view all the IP addresses that you will be able to use, both shared & dedicated, and which of the latter are available or taken. If you'd like to use an SSL certificate on any of your sites and you want a dedicated IP for it, you can take full advantage of our SSL order wizard, which can assign a new IP and install the certificate once you upload your order, so you do not need to adjust anything in your semi-dedicated website hosting account manually.
Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers
Since you can run almost anything on a dedicated server, all of our plans come with 3 dedicated IP addresses included as standard. In case you would like to launch some server software or to set up an SSL certificate for a site that you host on the machine, you will be able to use the IPs that we provide free of charge. In addition, you can register child name servers with one or two of the IPs for any domain name that you have registered with us or elsewhere then employ them to point other domains to the dedicated server. When you run a hosting company, for example, the aforementioned option will contribute to your credibility as a standalone service provider. If you need more IPs than the three the packages feature, you'll be able to get additional ones in increments of three either throughout the registration process or through your billing Control Panel any time.