Virtual Hosting Vs. Dedicated Hosting

Dec 09, 2006

I was doing some SEO-related research and read in a forum that search engines prefer websites hosted on dedicated IP addresses. Since all my websites are hosted on virtual hosts (virtual host means shared hosting where many webmasters share a single IP address) I was a bit worried after reading that. So I did some more search and found this post on virtual hosting vs. dedicated hosting on Matt Cutts’ blog. There he quotes a Slashdot interview with Craig Silverstein, Google’s Director of Technology who says:

If your ISP does virtual hosting correctly, you’ll never see a difference between the two cases. We do see a small percentage of ISPs every month that misconfigure their virtual hosting, which might account for this persistent misperception.

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