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alex.barylski
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Dedicated IP

Post by alex.barylski »

Often when I look into hosting (dedicated and shared) I see advertisements boasting dedicated IP.

If I were on a dedicated host and set out to host other sites on that dedicated host, why would those sites require a dedicated IP? As long as the domain name is used, all is good.

What are the advantages of dedicated IP addresses for web site.
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no downtime between ip refreshes, because there are no ip refreshes.

dynamic ip hosting can play monkey nuts with proxies and gateways - caching pages by hostname resolved to IP, not hostname on it's own.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Many services rely purely on TCP/IP to know what to do. FTP, for example cannot virtual host since you do not send the domain name in the request, therefore you need a dedicated IP, or you have to either log in, or specify the path on the server (i.e. you cannot have straightforward anonymous FTP with a shared IP).

Many, in fact most, other services also have this kind of problem.
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The main reason (imho) to have a dedicated IP would be SSL...
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Post by alex.barylski »

Here is the scenario:

I have a folder with a system in a root folder, which I will map to my web site domain (eventually)

As sub directories I have folders which will house client sites

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mycompany.com
  somecompany.com
  somecompany2.net
And so on.

MyCompany.com will use the IP for FTP, SSH, etc

The other domains will only *ever* need HTTP access (file uploading, etc will be done via web based interface).

So I don't need unique IP's if this is the case?

If I need to provde FTP for each client, can I cannot create an FTP which is base directory set to one of the domains?

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mycompany.com
  somecompany.com
    ftp/ 
  somecompany2.net
Would that work? Providing the same IP is used?

Thanks :)
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Post by rebus »

timvw wrote:The main reason (imho) to have a dedicated IP would be SSL...
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Also it's cool to have your own IP :)
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Post by timvw »

rebus wrote: Also it's cool to have your own IP :)
That's what 127.0.0.1 is for ;)
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