Where Is The Dedicated Hosting Service Used?

This is completely separate from your domain name or the URL of your site. The IP (Internet Protocol) address is a sequence of numbers assigned to every device that accesses the Internet. Whereas your domain is essentially your website’s address—the location where it can be found on the Internet—your computer’s IP address is a unique label that allows the Internet, websites, (and let’s be honest, probably the NSA) to identify your specific device when it accesses a website.

In addition to computers and mobile devices, servers have their own unique IP addresses. However, in the case of shared hosting where hundreds, sometimes thousands of sites all reside on the same server, each one of the hosting accounts associated with every one of those sites will have the same IP address.

This normally isn’t a problem in any way, whether you’re considering hosting or search engine optimization (SEO) factors. But in some cases, a dedicated IP can be helpful, and in others, it’s necessary.