MS Server set up question

lots of websites on one server

[u4eas]

We are leasing another dedicated server for a project we are doing. And I had a question 1st a little background...

Our client needs us to build 150 websites (with all different domain names) the website really consists of only 2 things. A header navigation component and 1 static web page that is SEO'd. The static page will be the index and the header nav will control content from a third party ecom site. The content from this 3rd party will be displayed in the larger part of the framed window. (BTW The client didnt want to pay for dynamic programing.)

I wanted to know what you guys/gals think

Does each mini website need its own ip address? The ISP said we can do it with one IP, but I dont think thats a great idea since we wanted to link back all of these mini websites to the clients main corp site (so we can up the backlinks).

Cheers-

Matt

[u4eas]

Anyone?

:)

[redzone]

Then the client may not want to pay the cost for 150 IP's either? :)

If each domain is only going to house (1) page, you can probably just use the one IP. The number of IP's used has nothing to do with linking back to the Client's Corp. site.

I was just discussing the logistics above, concerning Network load on a single IP etc..

As for the ethics and integrity in this type of strategy? :)

[u4eas]

BTW the client is a sister company of ours.

So I am worried about load, etc...

Maybe we should split the load up onto maybe 10 ips?

[redzone]

Network load is probably not an issue, but without knowing the specifics of your bandwidth allocation, server hardware (do you have any other domains running on this server?).

There is a lot of variables involved..
Forecasted traffic to the new domains, etc...

[u4eas]

Server is a dell xeon 2.8ghz
1 gb ram (going to up that though)
2 36GB ultra scsi drives - mirrored
100+ gb of bandwidth

No other domains will be hosted, this will be the only set up on the serve