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 used exclusively by your websites and will not be shared with others as it happens with shared hosting accounts. In case you have your own hosting server, you will have a dedicated IP, but you may require extra ones for many different purposes. If you have an electronic store, for example, you shall need an SSL certificate for it, to make certain that the payment info that your clients submit shall be encrypted and secure. The same is valid in case you have a login form of some type and you would like the usernames and the passwords which visitors type in to be secured. The SSL certificate requires a dedicated IP address, which ought to be different from the one that you already have on the web server. You could also need an independent IP for an app such as a VoIP server, or if you want a slightly better efficiency for a particular site, which will affect its position in search engine results.
Extra Dedicated IPs in Dedicated Servers
When you get one of our dedicated server packages, you will get three IP addresses at no additional charge and you can use them for any purpose. If you need additional IPs, you may request them whenever you want through your billing area and we will assign them to the web server a couple of minutes later. You can even get more IPs during the signup procedure and they'll be available on your hosting server the minute it is set and we hand it over to you. The IP upgrade is available in increments of three and you may decide how many addresses you will order and how long you will use them, as you can pick the number of IPs that you'll renew every month with your hosting server plan. Any IP address which is assigned to your dedicated server can be used not only for your personal content, but also for any website or application that your clients may have - if you have purchased the server with the purpose to resell the disk space to third parties.