Dedicated Server IP

**MattBarthorp** · #1 (**permalink**) 28-03-2009, 07:03

Hi,

Is it a necessity of having a dedicated IP for a website that does not involve online payment? And how does search engines react if a website has a dedicated IP address?

Rock · #2 (**permalink**) 28-03-2009, 07:14

Nope, a dedicated IP address isn't necessary for sites that aren't involved into online payment transactions.. If you have an online shop/store, you'd have the online payment processing option, where an SSL certificate would come into focus, hence a dedicated IP would be necessary here..

Hosting a site on a dedicated IP address or on a shared one doesn't make any difference for the search engines.. they treat both on them similarly

**Merrick** · #3 (**permalink**) 28-03-2009, 15:09

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Originally Posted by MattBarthorp

Hi,

Is it a necessity of having a dedicated IP for a website that does not involve online payment? And how does search engines react if a website has a dedicated IP address?

As said by Rock, you do not need a dedicated IP if you have non-business site or there is no online payment involved. However if you have a site that accepts money online then you must install SSL Certificate. EUK offers SSL Certificate with Free Dedicated IP. So I don't think that even if you accept payment online then you might need an additional dedicated IP. Needs to be confirmed from EUK member.

I read on some other forum that dedicated IP and shared IP does affect SE. Not much sure about that too.

Rock · #4 (**permalink**) 28-03-2009, 16:03

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Originally Posted by Merrick

I read on some other forum that dedicated IP and shared IP does affect SE. Not much sure about that too.

Hmmm.. we've several sites hosted on our Windows Plesk & Linux cPanel shared hosting servers, where MAXIMUM [95%] sites are hosted on the shared IP itself.. I've never heard anyone mentioning about their page rank & Search Engine Optimization depending on the IP addresses. Search Engine Optimization & Google ranking are only concerned on the quality of content, keywords, domain name etc. the IP address makes no difference from the SE's point of view.. ahh & if it does, I'm learning something new

The only problem you can face with having a site hosted on a shared IP depends on the nature of neighbours you are hosted with

If the shared IP is abused by someone, hosted on the same shared IP, it may result into getting that specific shared IP blacklisted, either by spam engines or by the Search Engine Optimization-er who is busy handling the inspection job, classifying good sites from the bad..

Well.. this debate on hosting sites either on shared IP address or a dedicated one would be inconclusive.. but if you're on the correct budget & care for the site's ranking [ahh as everyone does

] a dedicated IP would be suggested..

**harry** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-04-2009, 21:51

Yeah, that very true. Hosting website on Dedicated IP is a prestigious point and have its own benefits as explained by Jack

Spending few bucks on Dedicated IP always worth a lot.

**Catherine** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-04-2009, 01:29

Hosting a website on a Dedicated IP address is always considered to be more secured in comparison to hosting your website on a Shared IP address. If you have a website having cash transactions, you will definitely need a Dedicated IP address for security. Also, a Dedicated IP address will help you in Search Engine Optimization work but that's a different topic as for now.