How do I use my dedicated IP address at webhost4life?
Dedicated IP address also called static IP address. If you want to use dedicated IP address at webhost4life then you may refer to the instructions below:
1) Please contact support via webhost4life helpdesk to purchase your dedicated IP address.
2) Once their technical support staff setup a dedicated IP for you, you’ll need to follow the next few steps to make it work.
Setting up your Domain DNS Record:
1) If your domain name is pointed to webhost4life’s DNS server, then please go to hosting control panel -> DNS -> Zone Editor to update the following A records with the dedicated IP address that was assigned to you:
yourdomain.com
*.yourdomain.com
Note: If your domain is not pointed to webhost4life’s domain name servers then you need to do that at your domain registrar end.
2) Wait for 1 hour for dns propagation
Setting up your Website to correspond to the new dedicated IP address
1) Go to your control panel->site admin->change path
2) Find your URL and click on "View IP"
3) Choose the new dedicated IP and select update.
Note: depending on your ISP, it might take few hours before you’ll see the updated IP.