What are Invalid Reasons for a Dedicated IP Address

I need a dedicated IP address for search engine optimization!

Google, Yahoo and MSN (the "Big Three" search engines) have not provided any substantiating information that they distinguish between sites with a dedicated IP address and sites without a dedicated IP address.

If you are interested in Search Engine Optimization, you may want to consult their information directly:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/∞
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/ranking/∞
http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_webmasters∞

I need a dedicated IP address to work with older browsers!

What older browsers? NCSA Mosaic? Netscape 1.0? Internet Explorer 2.0?
If you are running a site that needs to support these browsers, then Javascript, HTML 4.0 tags, CSS and just about anything else other than text and <img src> tags will also not work.

I need a dedicated IP address so my site will run faster!

Web servers do not work this way. The Apache web server listens on all IP addresses assigned to that server and answers HTTP requests in the order received, regardless of the IP address it is received on.



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