Shared vs. Dedicated IP's & Port Access

Shared IP's:

Every domain name has an IP address assigned to it. An IP address is the real address of a website or server. Domain names were developed because it is difficult to remember long IP numbers like 234.123.66.7.

In shared hosting we host several hundred websites on one server; those same sites will share one single IP address. Instead of having a unique IP address for every domain, you share one IP address with all of the accounts on your server. The downside to shared IP's is that some countries, like China, censor particular websites by their IP address. If a website they censor is on the same server as yours, and China blocks that website using the shared IP address, then your website and the hundreds of others on that server are also blocked. This means that any clients in China would be unable to view your site. Getting a dedicated IP address would make your website separate so that if the shared IP address was blocked, your site wouldn't automatically be blocked along with it.

Email:

Email will not be affected by obtaining a dedicated IP address. Other than a program needing more than 5 minutes to send out emails from a mailing list, there is no benefit to email between a shared and a dedicated IP address. All email, including forwarded email, is sent out through our mail proxy servers. Obtaining a dedicated IP address will not prevent your emails from being marked as SPAM, having an ISP block the IP of the mail proxy server, or pass a reverse DNS test for places such as AOL. People sometimes are under the wrong impression that these things will change by obtaining a dedicated IP address. They won't change.

Dedicated IP's:

By purchasing a dedicated IP your site is the only one on the internet that will be using that unique IP address. For example, if you typed http://64.233.187.99/ into your web browsers address bar you would see Google's website come up. This is their dedicated IP address and no one else's. This is their unique address on the web that has been attached to the domain name google.com.

You could order dedicated IP's on our web.

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