When you host a website on a server, it works by using the server's shared IP address - an exclusive number which is used to detect any kind of device connected to the Internet. The website name that you use for the site is for quick access and convenience of the site visitors, but on a more basic level, their Internet browser connects to the IP of the server. Because there're far more sites than IP addresses, shared website hosting servers use a single IP for many different websites even in case they are owned by different users. Even though this does not affect the website performance directly, using a dedicated IP can slightly enhance the loading speed of a given website, providing it higher rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is required for the setup of an SSL certificate too, so when you want to secure the payment or login details that your site visitors type in, you need an IP along with the SSL.

Dedicated IP Address in Shared Web Hosting

If you use any of our shared web hosting packages, you can add a dedicated IP to your account without difficulty and assign it to any domain or subdomain with no more than a couple of clicks. This is valid whichever data center you've selected for the account throughout the signup process, so you can use this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. This way, you can have a dedicated IP for an electronic commerce website, for instance, whereas a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP because you can adjust each domain or subdomain separately through the Hosted Domains part of your Hepsia Control Panel. If you need a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you obtain the SSL from our company, you can use the auto-configuration tool, which will assign an IP and set up the SSL automatically for the site where you would like to use them.

Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you acquire a semi-dedicated server account from us, you will have the opportunity to get as many dedicated IP addresses as you'd like depending on your needs. It will take a couple of clicks in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel to get your new IP plus several more in order to assign it to a domain or a subdomain. The entire process is very simple and your site will start loading from the new IP address in a few minutes. Hepsia will enable you to view all the IPs that you can use, both shared and dedicated, and which of the latter are free or taken. Provided you'd like to use an SSL certificate on some of your websites and you want a dedicated IP for it, you can take full advantage of our SSL order wizard, that will assign a new IP and install the certificate the moment you submit your order, so you won't have to modify anything in your semi-dedicated web hosting account manually.

Dedicated IP Address in VPS Servers

All Linux VPS web hosting plans that we supply include a dedicated IP address, so you will not share the IP with another customer with a different account on the same server. If you choose a website hosting Control Panel for the server throughout the registration process, you'll get a second dedicated IP as well and you're able to use it for any content that you host on the VPS - an Internet site, an application, an SSL certificate, a VOIP server, and the like. In case you require more IPs, you can order them as an additional upgrade through your billing Control Panel and they will be assigned to your server very quickly. You will be able to manage your IPs without any difficulty via your web hosting Control Panel and the virtualization admin panel which you will obtain to take care of the virtual machine.

Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Servers

All the Linux dedicated servers that we supply include three dedicated IP addresses as standard and for free. You'll be able to use them for any purpose according to the content that you have on the server - a video game server or a Voice-Over-IP application, an SSL certificate for a website that you host, private name servers for a reseller domain that your clients can use to redirect domain names to their hosting accounts, etc. You will also be able to get additional dedicated IPs through the Upgrades section of your billing Control Panel in case you need more than the ones which come with your server. You are able to acquire the IPs in groups of three and they will be added to your dedicated server right after you send your order, which means that you can start using them without any delays.