All devices on the World Wide Web are recognized by a special number called an IP address, for instance 123.123.123.123. In case you have a website, the domain that you type to access it is for your convenience, however the server where the site files are still has an IP address. Considering that there're a lot more websites and devices than there are IP addresses, all of the shared website hosting servers have a number of websites under an identical IP, whereas when you use a dedicated server you will have a dedicated IP too. Even in the first case though, you can obtain a dedicated IP for your sites and host them on a shared server. An advantage would be that you'll have improved search engine rankings since a dedicated IP usually means a faster loading website. In addition, you need such an IP in case you want to obtain an SSL certificate for your website and shield the data that your visitors submit on it.

Dedicated IP Address in Cloud Hosting

We supply dedicated IPs with all our cloud hosting irrespective of the data center location and you're able to acquire one or several IPs via your Hepsia Control Panel. A fresh section will appear in your account and you can request, delete or view your IPs with just a couple of clicks. You can choose what number of domains or subdomains will use a given IP since you can assign one with a few clicks to any hostname. To give an example, www.domain.com can be your main website, which uses a server's shared IP, whereas shop.domain.com can be a subdomain where you offer goods or services on the web and it could have a dedicated IP together with an SSL certificate. You can switch the IP which a site uses from the Hosted Domains section where you can also keep track which IPs are in use and which ones are available. You can also set some of your websites to use the same dedicated IP given that there is no SSL activated for it.

Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers

Since all of our dedicated servers feature three dedicated IP addresses as part of the plans by default, we'll give you a serious advantage in case you'd like to run any software which requires such an IP. We provide them absolutely free and you're able to use them for as long as you use your server for anything you'd like - child name servers for any domain which you host, an SSL certificate for any site on your server, a software server (online games, VOIP), etc. Using the Upgrades menu in the billing Control Panel that you'll obtain to manage renewals, service upgrades and domain registrations, you'll also be able to obtain more dedicated IPs in sets of three whenever you want. They'll be assigned to your server within a few minutes, so you can start using them for your sites and web-based apps without delay.