Would you expect to get a static IP for twenty dollars

[astoller]

Static IP's are recommended to me so that I'm not hosted with hundreds of other sites, some of whom may be spammy.

So is it reasonable to expect be able to get a static IP for 1 domain for a twenty or thirty dollars (rather than having to get a dedicated server which is much more expensive) so I can promote this one domain free of any spammy connection ?

[Faglork]

It has also been said that the whole subnet could be a problem.

I do not believe that, really. Filtering IP addresses would have been a solution in the very beginning of the WWW, but nowadays? With servers which host thousands of virtual hosts on a single IP?

Is there any *proof* for this assumption? Where does it originate?

Alex

PS: "Static" IP just means that it is not dynamically assigned (stays the same all the time). All server IPs are static (yes, I know DynDNS ...), what you want is a *justhowdoyoucallthatinamericaenglandandorelsewher e* IP - a single IP address just for you.

[jestep]

You can get a hosted account at godaddy with a static IP for about $5 / month. I think $20 is very high.

[Mel]

Originally Posted by faglork

It has also been said that the whole subnet could be a problem.

I do not believe that, really. Filtering IP addresses would have been a solution in the very beginning of the WWW, but nowadays? With servers which host thousands of virtual hosts on a single IP?

Is there any *proof* for this assumption? Where does it originate?

Alex

PS: "Static" IP just means that it is not dynamically assigned (stays the same all the time). All server IPs are static (yes, I know DynDNS ...), what you want is a *justhowdoyoucallthatinamericaenglandandorelsewhe
re* IP - a single IP address just for you.

You might be interested to read Googles Localrank patent, which drops pages out of contention for rankings if there are other and better pages on the same Class C IP address in the ranking pool.

While I am not saying that Google is using this patent it does indicate thier thinking, as does Hilltop which also drops pages based on IP address.