How quickly will Googlebot visit a new IP address?

More quickly than you might think ...

[storevalley]

Posts periodically pop up in the forum asking how long Googlebot will take to work out that a site has moved from one IP to another.

How's this for a result ...

I recently moved a domain from Fasthosts to Host Europe. The longest part of the move was wrestling the domain across from Melbourne IT to OpenSRS.

The domain appeared in my control panel late Wednesday afternoon. I made the relevant DNS/nameserver changes then.

Logs for the new web space started showing some activity Thursday lunch time.

Early hours of Friday morning ... Googlebot appears :)

I'm just hoping that the rest of the spiders are as quick to follow.

[davemarks]

Surely googlebot won't cache your ip though, or not for long anyway.

Otherwise it would have one hell of a hugh cache of domains vs IP's

I would have thought it would cache for the period it crawls your site, then does a new lookup the next time it comes by...

Or am i missing the point?

[storevalley]

Surely googlebot won't cache your ip though

Have a look back through some of the posts in this forum. They would indicate that Googlebot of old did indeed cache your IP address for a significant length of time.

Otherwise it would have one hell of a hugh cache of domains vs IP's

True ... but this would also increase the crawler's performance (not having to do a lookup every time it visited a domain)

Perhaps I just got lucky ... ;)