Benefits of a Dedicated IP Address
Although Google says you don’t have to have a dedicated IP address, I recently had a wake-up call when I read an article that pointed out that most top ranking sites on Google have a dedicated IP address.
I had been lulled by the Goog’s assurances that they were not needed if the shared sites were not porn or gambling sites, although I always recommend them for clients (dedicated IPs that is). Once again, it’s hellooooo Kay, follow your own recommendations!
For those of you who don’t know what a dedicated IP address is…when you buy hosting for your web site, you share the server with other web sites. This means you share the same IP address. Large hosting sites often put many thousands of web sites on the same server (a recent client had over 72,000 sites on the same web server they use). The big danger is that some, or even one, can be blacklisted, or serve porn or gambling, which reflects on your innocent little site.
So the safest thing to do is pony up the $4 a month or so and get a dedicated IP address (you don’t need a dedicated server, btw, if the two terms confuse you). That way your site is the only one listed on that address. Besides the renewed opportunity to gain the first page in Google searches, your site will load faster, hopefully go down less often, and it it won’t end up in what’s called a "bad neighborhood."
You can use this shared hosting check tool to find out what other web sites share your IP address. It could be a real eye opener for you.
Thank you for sharing.
I think the need of dedicated IP is on the same way when your site going to be famous or high ranked by google.
The more higher your web rank, the more you need a dedicated IP. Sharing IP for high traffic web is high risk.
So, you’d better to have a dedicated one.
Just my two cents.
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Very Interesting. Informative and Helpful post.
So, this is how important a dedicated IP address is.
I never bothered about this before.
Dedicated IP address, I didn’t know about it before. I have checked my domain, there are 78 websites. From the names I guess there are no porn sites, hopefully. But I am going to think about getting a dedicated IP address. It’s worthed anyway.