caveman - 8:06 pm on May 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

I realize that I'm not able to edit earlier posts, so I'll add this here, spurred by Robert Charlton's input. If mods want to move it into the first post, that's fine too:

Do You Have Hundreds of Domains on the Same IP?
Some of the items in this list have to do with degree. "The IP question" is one of those. Is having a bunch of sites on a single IP bad? No. But what if all those sites are on the same topic? What if they are all interlinked? Point being, if a major SE smells a spammy network, then 340 interlinked sites on a single C block are a strong bit of evidence that something spammy this way comes.

There's another piece too, having to do with static versus virtual IP's. Some believe, as I do from experience, that SE's handle static IP's better than virtual IP's. However, you *will* hear arguements to the contrary. My personal bottom line: It's all a matter of risk/reward. How much is that static IP worth to you?