Hi

Have a simple question.
When hosting companies is offering Dedicated IPs, what is the advantage?

you really only need a dedicated IP if you are going to be using your own SSL certificate

hosts should (and most do now) provide it as an option because of the strict ARIN regulations regarding IPs.

Blinkiz:

its when your web site has its own IP address. every computer on the internet has an ip address. there are advantages over not having your own dedicated IP address.

Name based hosting is where a webhost can host like 200 web sites on the same ip address.

in short: your own ip is good

Dedicated IPs also allows you to always view your site if you change domains or are waiting for propagation. Dedicated IPs also allow anonymous ftp (Or can you do that on shared IPs as well now-a-days?)

Originally posted by modihost


in short: your own ip is good


that's a false statement, what benefits does it bring?


as i posted, you need it to use your own SSL cert - that's about it

Originally posted by Rewdog
Dedicated IPs also allows you to always view your site if you change domains or are waiting for propagation. Dedicated IPs also allow anonymous ftp (Or can you do that on shared IPs as well now-a-days?)

on a cpanel server you can use anonymous@yourdomain.com as username and your email as password for anonymous ftp on a shared ip

and you could also view your website during propagation time via a special URL, usually http://serverip/~username/ or http://hostdomain.com/~username/

Ahh, I'm a plesk guy. The later thing is an apache thing that can be turned on, wasn't sure about the first.
Learn 500 things new everyday.
Thanks!

Am currently having a dedicated IP address to my site.

But am on my way to change host and wondered what I will lose?

i remember reading that ensim also has a fix for the anonymous FTP problem....anyone care to post that to make it searchable for others - also if you know of the fixes(workarounds) for hsphere and plesk and windows

Cpanel is used on nearly all servers where clients would use anonymous FTP, and anonymous ftp is not frequently used as it is :)

Originally posted by Blinkiz
Am currently having a dedicated IP address to my site.

But am on my way to change host and wondered what I will lose?

if you are changing to a cpanel host and are not using an ssl certificate you will not lose functionality

good luck with your new host, and if you dont mind posting who you chose and why (in a new thread) we'd love to hear it (and of course a review in a few months)

You won't lose anything moving to a shared IP. I personally fought a while before we moved to shared IP hosting from dedicated IP's, but common sense, and community won out in the end. While I think everyone would like to have their own dedicated IP, it's not a 'need to have', for the reasons mentioned above.

Greg Moore

DNS will have to propogate again though if you moved to a shared IP from a dedicated IP, or vice versa from my experience... if there is a way around this, PLEASE let me know.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned about dedicated versus shared IP addresses is that if you have a shared IP address and your hosting service isn't vigilant about not allowing spammers or other abusers of the system YOU can get nailed when an ISP blocks e-mail from that IP. Our small business web site has gotten nailed by this from several ISPs and I'm looking for another hosting service because of it. I've been told that it's not a big deal by those who like our hosting service. BULL!! When the president of our company has an important e-mail bounce back because of it that makes it unacceptable even if they can "get it fixed in a few days".