Comments on: Should Your Website Have a Static or Shared IP Address?

By: Lowell

Lowell — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:03:58 +0000

I found your post after beginning my own research. This debate is new to me and I first heard about it when an SEO company wanted to by links on my sites for a client. However, they said that if I submitted more than one site to them for possible link purchases by their clients, each website needed to have a different IP? What? I have 150 domains and websites to match in multiple markets and was taken aback that I might even have to start using a dedicated server which would cost a fortune for that many domains.

After searching the net for info, I have come to the conclusion that the ‘pros’ to having a dedicated ip for every domain and website does not justify the cost is most cases. However, it is important to be with a hosting company with good policies about what content they allow and strict enforcement against spammers.

I agree with the comment above that if you have websites that are making big money compare to the rest, then it may not hurt to reinvest back into dedicated hosting for those websites.

By: Patrick Allmond

Patrick Allmond — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:27:01 +0000

This is a joke right ? I’ve never seen anybody that argues on the side of having a static IP address give a practical reason why. For performance? No. A static IP address does not give you better performance. A dedicated server (which comes with a static IP) gives you better performance.

Listen to what google says!
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/myth-busting-virtual-hosts-vs-dedicated-ip-addresses/

By: Speelgoed

Speelgoed — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:02:35 +0000

Use a static IP if possible, in some cases a shared IP give problems. My website in Holland had the same IP as a Casino website. I was blocked by several filters, but it takes really a lot of time to solve the problem, but it takes a lot of time to solve it. Bram

By: Roie Shap

Roie Shap — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:51:36 +0000

I created a website like 5 days ago, i submitted it to many engines and directories using some seo tools i got, the following day i had about 350 hits which i thought was a success.

So according to my plan i purchased 7 other domains and hostings plans (shared) uploaded different websites i have been working on for a while, and i submitted all of them the same way i did with the first one.

2 days after, not even 1 hit to any of the websites, google webmaster tools indicated that non of the new websites have been indexed or crawled, and it dosn’t say why…
and the first website there is no data on it at all, it is indexed, but non of the keywords or titles or data or pages is indexed.

The first thing that came across my mind today is the fact that they are all hosted on the same machine, with sames ip’s that hundrets of other websites share, which i have no idea what their contents are.

Of course I immediately contacted the web host, complaint and hopefully tomorrow i will have dedicated ip’s for all of them.

Seriously, pay the extra 2 dollars a month… specially if you make websites to make money of them, you gotta put some out to make some….

I don’t really care about other search engines, maybe yahoo, because Google usually provides websites 60-70% of the hits, in some cases more. And i think Google are constantly updating their filter’s and creating new rules just so people that search will get better results.

My next website i will pick dedicated hosting from the beginning and save myself the hair pulling.

By: Skip Norch

Skip Norch — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:09:59 +0000

YES static beats shared everytime both for SE Rank, speed and getting spidered fast. If you are on shared and have good luck – good for you, but the facts are the facts. There’s a study by one of the big firms who tested this and static was firmly on top.