When you host a website on a server, it employs the server's shared IP - a special number which is used to distinguish any kind of device connected to the Web. The domain name which you use for the site is for easy accessibility and convenience of the visitors, but on a lower level, their web browser connects to the IP address of the server. As there're a lot more sites than IPs, shared hosting servers use a single IP for a variety of sites even if they belong to different users. Even though this does not affect your site performance directly, having a dedicated IP can slightly boost the loading speed of a certain site, giving it higher rankings in search engine results. Such an IP is essential for the setup of an SSL certificate as well, so when you would like to protect the payment or login data that your website visitors submit, you'll need an IP along with the SSL.

Dedicated IP Address in Shared Hosting

When you use some of our shared hosting packages, you will be able to add a dedicated IP to your account with ease and assign it to any domain or subdomain with just a few clicks. This is valid no matter which data center you've selected for your account throughout the sign-up process, therefore you can take advantage of this feature in our US, UK and AU facilities. This way, you can have a dedicated IP for an e-commerce site, for example, whereas a forum attached to it can use the server's shared IP since you can adjust each domain or subdomain individually through the Hosted Domains section of your Hepsia Control Panel. If you would like a dedicated IP for an SSL certificate and you acquire the SSL from our company, you can use the auto-configuration instrument, that will assign an IP and install the SSL automatically for the site where you'd like to use them.

Dedicated IP Address in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you purchase a semi-dedicated server account from us, you'll have the option to obtain as many dedicated IPs as you would like depending on your needs. It takes just a few clicks inside the Hepsia hosting Control Panel to order your new IP plus a couple of more so as 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 allow you to view all IP addresses that you're able to use, both shared & dedicated, and which of the latter are available or taken. Provided you want to use an SSL certificate on some 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 set up the certificate the moment you submit your order, so you will not have to change anything in your semi-dedicated web hosting account manually.

Dedicated IP Address in VPS

In case you get a virtual private server from us, you'll get one dedicated IP address as standard and a second one when you obtain a web hosting Control Panel (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin). You're able to use the IPs for any kind of purpose - a site, some web application such as a VOIP server, even for private name servers that you'll be able to use to point to your VPS any domain that you would like to host. You can also add more dedicated IP addresses to your VPS account when you need them. You can do this from the billing Control Panel that you'll receive to control renewals, upgrade purchases and domain name registrations and it will take only a couple of clicks. Shortly after you post your order, the extra IP addresses will be accessible, so you're able to use them the way you like.

Dedicated IP Address in Dedicated Hosting

If you need a dedicated server, you probably want to run some web app or host a number of sites, so we supply 3 dedicated IP addresses gratis with every single package and you can use them the way you like - a software server, an SSL certificate, even child name servers for a domain that you've registered here or through another company. The last mentioned option is really helpful if you use your dedicated server to host clients' websites because it will give you credibility and anonymity as a website hosting company. The server billing Control Panel will allow you to add more IP addresses as well - the upgrade comes in increments of three and takes only a few clicks in the Upgrades section, so you're able to go ahead and take advantage of the new dedicated IP addresses several minutes after you submit your order.