rossH - 2:41 pm on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

well, at the low end, you can get a fine basic account for ten to twenty dollars a month with a good host. I don't want to drop names, but I just tried an account with pair, and got a second domain hosted on the same account, and I was astounded to see they gave me a second IP, for a charge of $1 per month - they must have IPs to burn, I had heard they were getting more scarce.

I think the reasons for a dedicated server are going to hinge on bandwidth charges and technical issues - and I'm at the limits of my knowledge now - but plenty of people have a dedicated server with multiple IPs running separate client domains, for example.

I'm sure a lot of people here, in the right forum, could offer better summaries of the economics of it.