How Many IP Addresses Do You Have?

[Lee]

Was curious to know how many ip addresses you folks have with your hosting account?

Are you putting all of your domain names and sites on a single ip address or are you splitting them up across multiple ips or ip blocks?

Im actually wondering if hosting specific domains on specific ip addresses does anything in terms of SEO?

Regards,

Lee

[DEVELISH]

IMHO it is all esoteric to me cuz nobody really knows how google works.

if you are a serious business, yes you have rapid response times for your servers... your servers are located in a well known top notch hosting business and respond via header the software and patch levels of the components...

... you have multiple hosting sites around the globe for high availability and so that data packets do not travel more than actually needet.

small sites however use some virtual hoster which has a billion domains on one server and a billion servers share the same IP in that cluster... sharing is bad and just the ones with money are able to buy themselves the IPs for separation...

knowing that the "rich" have several IPs and the "poor" only have one IP they share with the rest of the ghettos doesn't it make you wonder how domains rank high with hosts like 1&1 (largest hoster in europe), Strato (another german big one) and if I could name the largest in the USA its name would be here, too.

Do IPs really matter that much for SEO?

IMHO IPs do not matter much and are just another small screw to tune. Different IPs do not add value for the viewer but are rather a signal how "far" away a linktrade is. Oh and if lets say natnet offers two IPs they are still close together bound to one owner in one datacenter (think geoIP). Also google in fact knows where servers are located physically - it is relevant to their ranking if you try to server US-Citizen from within the US or from Singapore - the first one will get a ranking-bump.

I have read almost all papers on http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html and yes, google knows a lot and could even know more than we all imagine using data mining tools, reasoning tools and KI - but do they really NEET that data?
do certain things really make a difference in relevance? does it matter who you host with, what type of server you have, who the domain owner is, if you have whois protection or the IP of your domain?

The internet is not about IPs and the technology behing serving a page...it is about content and interlinking relevant sites. it is about serving value to a viewer. it is about where your customers are and what makes sense in a technological way of serving them.

But most of all it is about content.

0,02€

DEV...

p.s. it might not be easy to read but you can always hit me up on ICQ to clarify and I will be delighted to explain my thoughts. *drinks 3rd martini*

[Bill]

I've got a couple hundred IPs.

These days having things on seperate ips has less value than it did 4-5 years back.

Do seperate ips have no value - well, I wouldn't say that.

But less value than in the past, definitely.

[PUMPaul]

4 IPs here 3 with my main host and 1 on a virtual machine.

Everything I've read lately echos what the others have said. IP may matter to some very small amount but not like it used to a few years ago.

I am definitely no SEO expert to be sure but do try to get the fastest DL possible for my customers.

[coctronic]

I'm on virtual host and I got 2 IP's. Somebody had said that you don't want to host mainstream on the same IP as porn, but with so many sites on virtual servers anymore I don't think it really matters.

[jIgG]

4ips

and i dont think separate ips matter much for SEO, and if they do it's not in a big way as Bill stated

[Rich]

i think i have one but i am not sure i will have to ask