moving a website from a virtual host

worries about google not finding me

[moomelman]

Hello -

I currently have a domain on a virtual server (sharing an ip address with other users) and am about to move it to an new server with my own static ip address.

My question is ... when google does its update will it miss me because I'm on another Ip address (in its cache or marked from its last spidering) or does it try to find me by domain name instead?

In other words if I move my site between the time of the last spider to the time of the next update is this dangerous?

Thanks

[roscoepico]

moomelman, google is going to find your site via domain name and not ip address. You will be better off in the long run with your own ip address. Good luck....

[ciml]

The danger, moomelman, is that Googlebot still goes to the old IP to request your pages for a while. How long isn't known exactly, but it causes a problem for quite a lot of people. Search engines cache DNS for longer than browsers because they have so many domains to access during each crawl.

A while ago GoogleGuy mentioned that they had decreased their DNS cache time, but when I recently switched IPs I bought port redirection from the old IPs for six weeks.