Comments on: Multiple Sites and Multiple IP Addresses http://webhosting-directory.org/multiple-ip-addresses/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jennifer Mattern http://webhosting-directory.org/multiple-ip-addresses/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Jennifer Mattern Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:40:28 +0000 http://webhosting-directory.org/?p=214#comment-191 Completely unrelated to linking, I like to keep certain sites on separate IPs or separate hosts altogether for privacy reasons. I have sites that make up the core of my business model. Those include my business site to attract clients and certain bigger niche blogs and sites that help build credibility in my field. Those I attach my name to very publicly and I don't mind hosting them on the same IP, even when inter-linked because I only inter-link sites that are relevant (and usually end up merging related ones later anyway). On the other hand, I have several of what I like to call "quiet sites." These are sites I setup solely to build residual ad revenue. They support the development of the larger sites -- paying my coders and designers for example. These aren't the spam-variety MFA sites. As I writer I still stick to the goal of only creating quality content that adds real value. However, if they're unrelated to my main topic areas I don't want them diluting things like search results for my name. I also don't want people being able to do a reverse lookup to see every site I own because they're on the same IP (I've been maliciously targeted in the past by both trolls and hackers, and I find that separating the casual money-makers at least ensures I don't have to waste extra time cleaning them up when that happens as well.). There are certainly other reasons you wouldn't want people knowing about certain sites -- for example, if you write under a pen name and don't want people figuring out who you are for whatever reason. And some people write about things that could get them in trouble with their boss or others in their lives. Completely unrelated to linking, I like to keep certain sites on separate IPs or separate hosts altogether for privacy reasons. I have sites that make up the core of my business model. Those include my business site to attract clients and certain bigger niche blogs and sites that help build credibility in my field. Those I attach my name to very publicly and I don’t mind hosting them on the same IP, even when inter-linked because I only inter-link sites that are relevant (and usually end up merging related ones later anyway).

On the other hand, I have several of what I like to call “quiet sites.” These are sites I setup solely to build residual ad revenue. They support the development of the larger sites — paying my coders and designers for example. These aren’t the spam-variety MFA sites. As I writer I still stick to the goal of only creating quality content that adds real value. However, if they’re unrelated to my main topic areas I don’t want them diluting things like search results for my name. I also don’t want people being able to do a reverse lookup to see every site I own because they’re on the same IP (I’ve been maliciously targeted in the past by both trolls and hackers, and I find that separating the casual money-makers at least ensures I don’t have to waste extra time cleaning them up when that happens as well.).

There are certainly other reasons you wouldn’t want people knowing about certain sites — for example, if you write under a pen name and don’t want people figuring out who you are for whatever reason. And some people write about things that could get them in trouble with their boss or others in their lives.

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