An IP address is a unique number which distinguishes a site or a web server on the Internet, so if you have a dedicated IP, it will be employed exclusively by your Internet sites and shall not be shared with other people as it happens with shared website hosting accounts. If you have your own web server, you will have a dedicated IP, but you may need additional ones for many different purposes. Provided you have an online store, for example, you will need an SSL certificate for it, in order to make sure that the payment info which your customers submit shall be encrypted and protected. The same is valid in case you have a login form of some type and you want the usernames and the passwords which visitors type in to be secured. The SSL certificate requires a dedicated IP, which should be different from the one that you already have on the web server. You could also need an independent IP for an application such as a VoIP server, or if you want a slightly better overall performance for a particular site, which will affect its position in search engine results.
Extra Dedicated IPs in VPS Servers
If you decide to buy one of our VPS service, we will supply you with one dedicated IP address by default and a second one totally free - in the event that you add any one of the hosting Control Panels which we offer to your order. Additional IPs could be purchased with ease in case you need them. The option is available on the order page, so in case you need more IPs from the beginning, we'll able to assign them to your VPS the minute it is set up and you can use them as soon as you begin using the hosting server. If you require them for any reason later, you can order them from the billing area and they will be available within a matter of minutes. In this way, you'll be able to assign dedicated IP addresses not only to your own Internet sites, but also to customers' sites if you have started out a reseller business. You could order IPs as often as required and renew them together with your virtual server plan. If, sooner or later, you require less IPs, you shall have the chance to renew just those that you require, while the extra ones shall be removed from your web server.
Extra Dedicated IPs in Dedicated Servers
In case you obtain one of our dedicated server packages, you'll get three IP addresses at no additional charge and you may use them for any purpose. If you require additional IPs, you can request them anytime from your billing area and we'll assign them to the web server a couple of minutes later. You may even get additional IPs during the signup procedure and they'll be available on your server as soon as it's ready and we hand it over to you. The IP upgrade is available in increments of three and you'll be able to pick how many addresses you'll order and how long you shall use them, since you can pick the number of IPs that you'll renew every month with your web server plan. Any IP address which is assigned to your dedicated server may be used not just for your personal content, but also for any site or app that your customers may have - if you have acquired the server with the purpose to resell the disk space to third parties.