First off you can add multiple IP’s to each SliceHost VPS. Adding the secondary IP address to a SliceHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) is easy. Open the SliceManager control panel and click the Help tab to open a support ticket. In the ticket state that you want a secondary IP, the justification for it, and that you understand it will cost $2/month. Typically support responds very quickly and will configure the secondary IP address for you.
Typical justification would be that you are running a web server and need to have multiple SSL certificates.
To view the secondary IP address on your Linux VPS enter the below command.
- ifconfig -a
You should get an output similar to the below.
- [root@corp ~]# ifconfig -a
- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:32:44:EE:1C:9A
- inet addr:192.168.1.20 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
- inet6 addr: fe80::4360:64ee:fedd:6e9a/64 Scope:Link
- UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
- RX packets:15320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
- TX packets:17259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
- collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
- RX bytes:6544299 (6.2 MiB) TX bytes:1791891 (1.7 MiB)
- eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:23:64:EE:5C:9A
- inet addr:192.168.1.30 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
- UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
- lo Link encap:Local Loopback
- inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
- inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
- UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
- RX packets:504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
- TX packets:504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
- collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
- RX bytes:145080 (141.6 KiB) TX bytes:145080 (141.6 KiB)
- sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
- NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
- RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
- TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
- collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
- RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
You can start using your secondary IP immediately.
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