I've searched & read the various posts about dedicated ip vs. layered or stacked ip, and it seems these are the valid reasons for needing a dedicated ip:

1. anon FTP
2. SSL
3. pre 3.0 browsers won't see sites without a dedicated ip (will see the host domain's home page instead).

I've not seen item 3 mentioned on WHT, so that's the gist of this query: is it true? is there a workaround?

Thanks...

Originally posted by gvtexas

3. pre 3.0 browsers won't see sites without a dedicated ip (will see the host domain's home page instead).


pre 3.0 browser for IE and pre 2.0 browser for Netscape.

Originally posted by gvtexas 3. pre 3.0 browsers won't see sites without a dedicated ip (will see the host domain's home page instead).

This is true, however less than 0.01% of world-wide-web users use pre-4.0 browsers, at least according to my statistics.

Originally posted by bombino


This is true, however less than 0.01% of world-wide-web users use pre-4.0 browsers, at least according to my statistics.

I've heard that, yet in one of my accounts 12% were NS 2x & 3x browsers (over a 12-month period), so I'm not sure it's something to ignore.

Gary