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Dedicated IP Address
Own Your Domain With A Dedicated Server
Dedicated hosting costs more, but offers more features and benefits. With dedicated hosting, yours is the only site on the server and you have your own IP address. A dedicated IP address used to be a requirement for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, but some hosting companies now offer it as part of virtual hosting packages.
Because you have the server to yourself, dedicating hosting is more expensive. It's the difference owning a home instead and renting an apartment. Like any homeowner, your costs will be higher, but there are a lot of benefits to the arrangement:
- More control: You won't have to worry about someone else's bad script slowing down or crashing the server. You'll have only yourself to blame if that happens!
- Faster response with high traffic loads: Because the server only responds to request for information from your site, visitors won't have to wait in line to view your Web pages and images.
- Easier setups. It's easier to set up the server to handle anonymous FTP and SSL encryption if the server has a dedicated IP address. Although this isn't impossible with virtual hosting, it is more difficult.
Many virtual hosts don't offer it or charge a premium if they do. If the host offers SSL encryption with a virtual hosting account, make sure they set it up for you!
- No bandwidth penalty. Virtual hosting accounts usually offer a certain amount of bandwidth per month to each site on the server. Sites that go over their allotment get charged extra. But dedicated hosting generally has no such restrictions because it's assumed that you need a lot of bandwidth if you require your own server.
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