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There are 102 sites currently hosted on the same IP number as one of my sites, and I am worried that this might have a negative effect on SEO.
Any opinions?
Gary
By doing this you can't be pulled down by other sites, that happen to share your IP address. The other is to pay your host for a unique ip for each of your sites. This way each site, even on your shared hosting server gets it's own IP address.
Another alternative if you are very keen to be safe is to have a dedicated server and seperate IP addresses for each of your domains.
The main problem with shared IP addresses is if one site gets banned. It is possible that a search engine such as Google may ban the entire ip, and in doign so all sites on that IP. Having an IP that only you host on is safer, although many sites run on shared IP's with no problems at all.
Mack.
Gary
Why not?
I can't see anything sinister or underhand about such a request.
Why would anyone ask questions? What has it got to do with anybody else, surely it's an innocent business transaction?.
It is not like I look like Osama Bin Laden and I want to buy five tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer to 'help my roses to grow' is it?
Don't see an issue, are IP addresses in short supply?
Confused :/
The expense of purchasing IP addresses is suposed to be enough of a deterent to prevent people getting IP's just for the sake of it.
Mack.
In a perfect world hosts are suposed to look after IP alocations, after all there are only so many combinations.The expense of purchasing IP addresses is suposed to be enough of a deterent to prevent people getting IP's just for the sake of it.
AFAIK, there is no policy, official or otherwise, against one site = one IP.
IP allocations are supposed to be justified. But really what is dicouraged is allocating IPs that won't be used.
"Uh, I want 1,000 (or 10,000, or 1,000,000) IPs because I think that's how many I'm going to need next year."
No.
Not unless you can show a history of that kind of need.
If you look in the small print at ARIN (the agency in charge of IP allocations in the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa) I think you'll find there's even a policy for taking-back IPs. But the criteria is that they have gone unused.
FWIW, my (VPS) hosting provider charges $2 per IP, one-time (no monthly fee). So this need not be horribly expensive. I have one IP for every site. I do combine alias domains for the same site on one IP.
If for some reason you want to support HTTP <1.1 browsers, and want redirects to the primary site to be handled properly, it takes 2 IPs per site. (One for the primary, one for all aliases.) After looking at the browser stats, I decided that was overkill.
Here's one negative to having a unique IP address: you will be subjected to a higher volume of attacks. Some atackers scan through a list of domain names, others through blocks of IP addresses. Those that go through blocks of IP addresses will only go to the first site (usually a dummy) on a virtual host.
Mack.
