I have just come across a couple of pretty handy websites to check out who is sharing your I.P. address. Unless you have paid extra for a dedicated server you will presumably be sharing with a few other websites. To check out who is sharing your I.P. You could try the following two webapps:
- You Get Signal Reverse I.P. Lookup This website will provide you with a list of who is sharing the same server as you. Additionally it highlights in red any website that may be seen as explicit.
- MyIPNeighbours.com Provides a similar service but may come up with a different result (it did for me).
Why is Sharing I.P. Servers Bad?
According to buildwebsite4u.com:
“Some SEOs suppose that there really is no good reason to obtain static IP Web hosting. Your site will not perform any better by having its own static IP.
Some others theorize that your choice of dedicated IP hosting vs. shared hosting might slightly affect your rankings (i.e. it’s a factor considered by search engines).
Yet others suppose that sharing an IP address with known spam or adult sites raises a warning flag with search engines, so some of them may respond by banning the entire IP address from their index.”
They also go on to say that these fears are probably exaggerated and I.P’s will need to be shared in the future anyway. Shared hosting is a lot cheaper generally too.
I believe that it is unlikely that two websites sharing the same I.P. would be associated in any way by search engines. This is because a lot of websites share I.P’s and it wouldn’t make sense for them to be associated in any way.
For now I’m sticking with my shared hosting…
Any shared hosting problems? Comment away….
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January 22nd, 2010 → 3:49 pm @ Jonny
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