If you host a site on a server, it works by using the server's shared IP - an exclusive number which is used to detect any device connected to the Internet. The website name which you use for the website is for easy accessibility and convenience of the visitors, but on a lower level, their Internet browser connects to the IP of the server. As there're many more websites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use the very same IP for a number of websites even in case they belong to different users. Even though this does not affect your website performance directly, using a dedicated IP may slightly increase the loading speed of a particular website, granting it better rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is needed for the installation of an SSL certificate as well, so when you wish to protect the payment or login data that your site visitors enter, you will need an IP alongside the SSL.

Dedicated IP Address in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting account on our cloud platform, you are able to purchase a dedicated IP address and assign it to any domain or subdomain with a couple of clicks no matter where your account is - in the United States, the United Kingdom or Australia. This is done from the Hosted Domains section of the intuitive and user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel where you may also keep track of what IPs are available, what are in use and what sites they're assigned to. When you wish to use an SSL certificate so as to protect the info of your site visitors and you acquire it through us, our system can assign a dedicated IP and set up the SSL for you, so you won't 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 discussion forum where users can share opinions about your services, for example.

Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy a semi-dedicated server account through us, you will get the opportunity to obtain as many dedicated IPs as you'd like depending on your preferences. It takes just a couple of clicks inside the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to obtain your new IP and several more in order to assign it to a domain or a subdomain. The entire process is very easy and your site will start opening from the new IP address in minutes. Hepsia will allow you to see 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 want to use an SSL certificate on some of your websites and you want a dedicated IP for it, you can take advantage of our SSL order wizard, that can assign a new IP and set up the certificate the moment you upload your order, so you don't need to modify anything in your semi-dedicated web hosting account manually.

Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers

Considering that you will be able to run more or less anything on a dedicated server, all of our plans feature 3 dedicated IP addresses included by default. In case you plan to launch some server software or to activate an SSL certificate for a site that you host on the machine, you can use the IPs which we provide for free. In addition, you can register child name servers with one or two of the IPs for any domain name that you have registered through us or somewhere else and use them to direct other domains to the dedicated server. When you manage a website hosting company, for instance, this option will contribute to your credibility as a standalone service provider. When you need more IPs than the three the packages come with, you'll be able to get additional ones in increments of 3 either throughout the signup process or through your billing Control Panel at any time.