All devices on the World Wide Web are recognized by a special number called an IP address, such as 123.123.123.123. If you have a site, the domain that you type to access it is for your convenience, but the server where your site files are still has an IP. As there're many more websites and devices than there're IP addresses, all shared hosting servers have a number of websites under the same IP, while using a dedicated server you'll be given a dedicated IP too. Even in the first case though, you are able to acquire a dedicated IP for your websites and host them on a shared server. An advantage would be that you'll have far better search engine rankings since a dedicated IP generally means a quicker loading website. Also, you need such an IP if you would like to buy an SSL certificate for your site and secure the data that visitors submit on it.

Dedicated IP Address in Shared Web Hosting

When you use a shared web hosting account on our cloud platform, you will be able to acquire a dedicated IP address and assign it to any domain or subdomain with just a few clicks no matter where your account is - in the USA, the UK or Australia. This can be done from the Hosted Domains area of our intuitive and user-friendly Hepsia Control Panel where you may also monitor what IPs are available, what are in use and what sites they are allotted to. If you wish to use an SSL certificate so as to secure the information of your visitors and you get it through us, our system will assign a dedicated IP and set up the SSL for you, so you will not need to do anything manually on your end. In the meantime, you can still have a site in a subdomain as an addition to the main one under a shared IP address - a discussion board where users can share their opinion about your services, for instance.