At 11:41 AM -0500 11/13/06, David Hubbard wrote:
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SSL is a technical justification for separate IP
addresses for web hosts. Virtual servers is another
technical justification for assigning multiple IP
addresses to a single physical server.
What I meant was we require a technical justification to
give a dedicated IP to a customer
As do we.
but many hosts do not,
or they use it as a revenue add by charging for having
a dedicated IP when there's no technical reason for it.
The most ridiculous justification these days is the urban myth** that
having sites with unique IP addresses, and preferably from different
/24 networks, somehow magically increases your "SEO" and lands you
atop the pagerank heap.
Previously, or maybe still, there was no mandate that web
hosts only assign dedicated IP's when it can be justified.
ARIN seems to have gone dark on that subject.
** I assume it is myth, but I've never heard anyone from Google make
any statements that definitively debunks it. Debunking this pervasive
among webmasters and "SEO Experts" myth sure would be a very UN-evil
thing to do if true (Hint hint you Google-folk!)
It pisses me off to no end when a sales guy comes to me with a
request from a customer for a /20 for a half-rack of web servers. The
justification ALWAYS comes down to this inane "search engine
optimization" pipe dream. =\
--chuck goolsbee ***
*** Waiting now for ~246 hours for Yahoo!Mail human beings to contact
me within their promised "48 hours".
