Multiple Domain Hosting on Shared IP
Hosting multiple domains on a shared IP has been a long time debate as most of the people and veterans say that you should have a unique IP address for each domain. Some people also suggest that there is no need for a unique IP address as the search engines take the URL of the website and not the IP address. Most of the web hosting companies with realistic hosting prizes dont usually offer a fixed IP address for their users unless the user really needs it to set a SSL on his website. If you are in need of your fixed IP for your domain then it will just cost you a few more dollars every month. Before requesting for your static IP it is important to know what is a shared IP and a static IP.
Static IP
A static IP is a unique address to your website. For example if you take 123.2.234.234 as your websites IP address then you can access your website by just typing the IP address in a URL form like http:// 123.2.234.234/ in the address bar. This will directly take you to your website as it is also works as your unique website URL.
Shared IP
A shared IP is usually shared by two or more domains or websites. If you have a shared IP address then you can access your website by just typing your IP address that will be followed by typing user1 or user2 in the following manner according to your user number.
There are a few questions with regards to shared IP like problem in Banning. During the early period of computer technology the search engines used the IP address of the website to conduct the search. But today the search engine technology has changed as virtual domains have become popular and the URLs have become more popular than an IP address of the website. So this means that if one website shares the same IP address then the website was banned meaning all the websites were banned as search engines do not give much priority to website IP addresses. But there are also some of the search engines like Google move slowly by catching the IP address in order to save bandwidth.
Questions regarding multiple domain hosting on shared IP
Are search engines only index to just a single IP address even if you submit two files regularly? When you submit a website most of the search engines only take the URL into account that is being submitted and not the IP address it came from. There can arise a problem when you submit two files in the same IP address the search engine would only take one as the IP address will be the same for the other. If you have different pages from different web sites then there should not be any problem in hosting more than two websites. It is also good to know that sharing an IP address is not that bad if all the programs are smoothly functioning without sending unwanted junk mails to search engines.
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