Froggyman - 2:51 pm on May 25, 2001 (gmt 0)

Heres what my host said (not arguing with you). Discuss amongst yourselves.

Dedicated IP Address All hosting accounts come with their own ip address. Many hosts offer 'fake virtual' domain accounts, which means they fool most browsers into redirecting themselves to the correct directory on the server. This method only works with certain browsers, is not full featured and is not a professional solution.

Well, this may be true for the older browsers but not Mozilla 3.0 and up. But then again a spider is nothing more than a stripped down browser which makes me think there might be a SE advantage in some cases (not all). I hear from others that Lycos and Excite prefer dedicated IP's.

Other Advantages
[ie-host.com...] (not my host)

Not sure what you mean about the path to the site but the domain name and IP address are both resolvable.

>>>Dedicated IP's are going to be more and more scarce as more hosts go to name based domains<<<

Actually, they are running out of IP numbers.