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I have three sites (community based) all doing reasonably well and covered in the search engines.
These sites are on the same IP address.
My question for discussion (and apologies if this is repeated) is are there any benefits of putting each site on its own unique IP?
If so, what are those benefits?
In addition how easy is this implemented and are they are consequences of doing so?
Many thanks.
are there any benefits of putting each site on its own unique IP?
AFAIK, the only benefit of separate IPs will be if you get a lot of *very* old browsers (those using HTTP/1.0) who can't deal with vhosts.
Implementing it isn't hard (assuming you're using apache, it's just a different sort of virtual hosting), but DNS propagation means you'll have to host both ways for a while until you're sure that everyone is going in via the IP route, otherwise users will start getting errors.
Apart from that I see no problems, it's really whether you feel it's important enough to do the work involved.
Best of luck if you do :-)
J.
Any implications from a SEO?
Don't quote me on it though, I've no way of knowing what goes on inside SEs, you'd have to ask GoogleGuy or someone else equally in the know.
Second opinion anyone?
...Long time reader, first time poster.
Long story short, I moved my site from one hosting company to another, and have had no repercussions.
On June 22nd, I decided to move my biggest site onto a new server.
So far so good. Accross the SEs I've held the same placement I had when I made the switch.
The site is linked to by one PR7, and one PR5 that I know of, so the site gets crawled everyday.
Hope this helps.
-B
