An IP address is a unique number that distinguishes an Internet site or a web server on the world-wide web, so if you have a dedicated IP, it'll be employed exclusively by your Internet sites and will not be shared with other people as it happens with shared web hosting accounts. If you have your own web server, you'll have a dedicated IP, but you may require extra ones for various uses. Provided you have a web-based store, for instance, you will need an SSL certificate for it, in order to ensure that the payment information which your customers submit will be encrypted and secure. The same is valid in the event that you have a login form of some type and you would like the usernames and the passwords which visitors input to be secured. The SSL certificate requires a dedicated IP address, which needs to be different from the one that you already have on the machine. You might also need an individual IP for an application such as a VoIP server, or if you desire a slightly better performance for a certain website, which will influence its position in search engine results.

Extra Dedicated IPs in Dedicated Servers

In case you acquire one of our dedicated server plans, you'll receive three IP addresses at no additional charge and you can use them for any purpose. If you require even more IPs, you may request them anytime through your billing area and we shall assign them to the hosting server a few minutes later. You may even get more IPs during the signup process and they will be available on your hosting server the moment it's set and we hand it over to you. The IP upgrade is available in increments of 3 and you could pick how many addresses you will order and how long you will use them, since you could choose the number of IPs that you will renew each month with your web server plan. Any IP address which is assigned to your dedicated server can be used not just for your personal content, but also for any site or app your customers may have - if you have obtained the hosting server with the goal to resell the disk space to third parties.