When you host a site on a server, it makes use of the server's shared IP - a special number that's used to distinguish any kind of device connected to the Web. The domain name which you use for the website is for easy access and convenience of the visitors, but on a lower level, their Internet browser connects to the IP address of the server. As there are a lot more websites than IPs, shared website hosting servers use a single IP for a variety of sites even if they belong to different users. While this does not affect your website performance directly, having a dedicated IP can slightly improve the loading speed of a particular website, providing it superior rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is necessary for the setup of an SSL certificate too, so if you plan to protect the payment or login data that your site visitors type in, you should have an IP along with the SSL.

Dedicated IP Address in Shared Web Hosting

If you use some of our shared web hosting plans, you will be able to add a dedicated IP address to your account without any difficulty and assign it to any domain or subdomain with just a few clicks. This is valid whichever data center you have chosen for the account during the sign-up process, which means that you will be able to take full advantage of this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. In 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 as you can adjust each domain or subdomain independently through the Hosted Domains part of your Hepsia Control Panel. When you need a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you obtain the SSL from our company, you can use the auto-configuration instrument, that will assign an IP and install the SSL automatically for the website where you want to use them.

Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Hosting

With just a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to add one or several dedicated IP addresses to your semi-dedicated hosting service and assign them to your websites. The Hosted Domains part of Hepsia will help you find the available IP addresses and to check those which are in use with ease. Provided you want to get a new IP for an SSL certificate, you can use the auto-configuration function, that is available in our SSL order wizard. If you enable this option, you will not have to do anything after you send in your order as our system will request a dedicated IP, assign it to the domain or subdomain in question, and then install the SSL certificate - all of this automatically and without the need of any action on your end. That way, you will be able to secure the data that visitors post on your site even if you don't have any previous experience with such matters.

Dedicated IP Address in VPS Hosting

All of our Linux VPS hosting services provide you with one dedicated IP address as standard and if you obtain a hosting Control Panel (DirectAdmin, cPanel, Hepsia) during the signup process, you will obtain an additional one as well completely free. You're able to employ them as you see fit - to access web content, to manage a web application, to set up an SSL certificate, or even to register private name servers for any website that you have and use the latter for any other website that you'd like to host on your server. The billing Control Panel where you are able to take care of all plan renewals, upgrades and domain registrations will enable you to order extra dedicated IPs when you need them for any purpose. Just a few minutes later the IPs will be assigned to your Virtual Server and you will be able to use them immediately.

Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Web Hosting

As you will be able to run pretty much anything on a dedicated server, all our packages feature three dedicated IP addresses included by default. In case you wish to launch some server software or to set up an SSL certificate for a website that you host on the machine, you'll be able to use the IPs which we supply for free. In addition, you can register child name servers with one or two of the IPs for any domain name that you've registered through our company or any place else and then use them to direct other domains to the dedicated server. If you manage a hosting company, for example, this option will contribute to your credibility as an independent provider. In case you need more IP addresses than the three our packages come with, you are able to purchase additional ones in increments of three either during the signup process or through your billing Control Panel at any time.