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CainIV

4:19 am on Jun 30, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hi guys, I wanted to run this by the forum in case there is anyone who has experienced this previously.

I work with a service related company that recently purchased a lease for a software framework, out of the box, that integrates listings into the website.

The company they leased the framework from setup the website on a shared ip with 16 other websites.

Recently, while doing a site: search, I discovered that urls from another website on the same ip are showing in the the results (as belonging to our website. When I access those pages, there is no content, and they throw a 404, but more and more urls from the other website are appearing in these results.

Example:

Other website on same shared ip:

www.theirwebsite.com/this-is-a-unique-fizz-ball-guy.html

A site search for our website shows

www.ourwebsite.com/this-is-a-unique-fizz-ball-guy.html

Everytime they publish a new post, we have new entries.

I am not a server expert, and am wondering if others here might have experienced this. We have asked this particular company to assign us a dedicated IP because of this hoping that this would fix any potential issues.

Thanks in advance...

tedster

4:19 pm on Jun 30, 2010 (gmt 0)

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It definitely sounds like a shared IP configuration problem, and using a dedicated IP address should fix it.

bwnbwn

5:07 pm on Jun 30, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I wonder are you sharing the same db with the other sites as well?

CainIV

5:40 am on Jul 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

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It's a great question guys, I am going to dig in more and find out. Unfortunately the currently arrangement of opacity makes it difficult investigating. Thanks for confirming my suspicions in regards to the dedicated ip, I think that should remedy the issue.

Robert Charlton

6:21 am on Jul 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

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