Does IP make a difference what kind of IP address you have?

Thursday, June 25, 2009 2:47
Posted in category User Contributions

Yes. Most of webmaster and hosting providers recommend that you spend the money to get a dedicated IP that hosts only your own domain names. This has several reasons:

  1. Search engines might use it in their algorithms:
    Google will tell you that it doesn’t matter whether your website has a dedicated IP address or not. However, most of the web pages that can be found on the first result pages have dedicated IP addresses. That’s interesting because the vast majority of domains is hosted on a shared IP address.
  2. Shared hosting makes your website slower:
    If you share an IP address with hundreds of other websites then your website might become very slow. If one of the other websites on the server uses a lot of resources then this will affect your own website.
    The web server delivers the web pages in the order it receives the requests. If there are more requests to the other websites on your server, the visitors of your website will have to wait before the server sends them your pages.
  3. Your website might be in a bad neighborhood:
    If your website has the same IP address as websites that sell questionable products then your website might get in trouble. If one of the other websites on the server gets banned on Google then your website might get banned, too.

Contributor: Naseer Ahmad Mughal

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