question about hosting and ip

[goneinthesun]

what i understand is that it is not a good idea to put all your domain into one ip address.

Should I get a few different hosting package from a few different hosting companies?

go with one hosting company but get a few different ip address?

does it matter?

any advice is appreciated.

[lammert]

In general, there is not a problem with having many websites on one IP address. This has been confirmed by Matt Cutts from Google some time ago. With shared hosting it is normal that tens or hundreds of sites are all hosted on the same IP. There are only a limited number of IP addresses available in the world and sharing one IP address between multiple websites is seen as a good practice to preserve IP addresses for other uses.

There are three exceptions where you might need one IP per site:

• If your site uses encrypted content, i.e. is accesible via a https:// URL, it needs a separate IP address. This is because of the way the SSL encryption protocol for website works.
• People who want to interlink their own sites and at the same time want Google and other search engines to think that those sites are from different owners and have noting related, may want multiple IP addresses for their sites. This is only of limited use, because search engines have many other ways to determine if two sites are from the same, or different owners.
• The third reason is if you want to send emails directly from your site. Email servers that send spam often get their IP address listed in one or more of the global blocklists. If your email sending website happens to share the IP address with such an email spammer, your email might have difficulties to get to their destination.

[goneinthesun]

thanks for your great feedback.

[dbdev]

If your new hosting company is running IIS, you can have as many domains on 1 ip address as you want. You just add a host header for each domain.

[raedthakur]

so if a email spammer is on my shared machine and i am sharing the ip with the spammer,i too loose out right and my emails will also go directly to spam folder?
is there a way to check if my ip is in the block list of google,hotmail.yahoo,etc and thn maybe we can ask the webhost to move us to a different machine ?

[dbdev]

If you are sharing an IP with a spammer and that IP is blacklisted you too are blacklisted.

You can check for blacklistings using sites like spamcop and various others... google "email blacklist"

[raedthakur]

just a newbie question.... how to find the ip of the shared machine my website is?

i know this is probably just the basic .

[stapel]

raedthakur asked: how to find the ip of the shared machine my website is?

You could try "pinging [en.wikipedia.org]" your domain name.

For instance, you could enter your domain name in the top box in this online form [centralops.net], leave "Ping" selected, and click "Go". You should be taken, almost instantly, to a page showing your IP address, along with the response times for each "ping" done.

Eliz.

[raedthakur]

thanks a lot.... stapel