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1) I have an account where I can add many domains and each is assigned a different IP. This is sold by disk space without regard to how many domains. This has a monthly fee based on a upfront disk space chunk, like 1 gig.
2) Everyone has seen hosting for a single domain with usally large amounts of disk space; but you pay for every domain you add as if it were a completely new account. All have individual IPs.
3) Another type of hosting package I just ran across has a large amount of disk space in which you add directories and then pointers to those directories for different websites, but all have the same IP and are some how parsed at the server to decide what to send to the requesting browser, I think.
4) I also know of dedicated servers that act as your own server but owned by the host and on the host premises.
Are there others? Is there a glossary of hosting types?
Number 3 seems to fly against everything I have read here, multiple domains all with the same IP? How do the SEs deal with this set up?
Number 3 seems to fly against everything I have read here, multiple domains all with the same IP? How do the SEs deal with this set up?
Number 3 is actually the web hosting standard for shared hosting. It is called "virtual hosts" and allows a hosting company to set up literally thousands of accounts and sites on one server with only one IP address.
In simple terms virtual hosting works by domain name. If inbound traffic is looking for example.com the server looks to find out where the html folder for example.com is located. it then serves the correct pages to the end user.
There is always the chance of ending up on the same server as a spam site and being banned by IP, but this type of hosting is still very popular indeed. Most hosting companies who offer this also offer ad on ip addresses, this can be a workaround for avoiding this risk.
Mack.
All SE pick up on this from the day one, and penalize the site. No matter what you do from then on, you will not remove the penalty.
I worked for 6 months trying to "fix" a PR 2 site just to find out another unrelated site on the shared IP was doing "black hat" SEO. The IP address gets the penalty not the site.
Even when I moved the site to a complete new hosting service, the PR 2 stayed. It is now another 6 months, two more redesigns, and it is still a PR 2.
Lesson Learned: If it is a production site that counts, get a dedicated IP address for it.
Also, Google does show a leaning PR wise to dedicated IP sites.
Jim Catanich
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[edited by: engine at 8:37 am (utc) on July 27, 2006]
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