We do have a couple of companies that use SSL, but some of the hosting
companies we inquired about said that we can purchase separate IP's for $1
per month or something like that.  So, if SSL will be an issue, we can just
go with a few (<10) more IP's and treat them separately, correct?

Ray

At 04:46 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
>We have been doing it for a couple of years. I have over 100 websites on
>just one server and most of them are the same IP. The only thing that gets
>separate IPs are SSL and special Application sites like the control panel or
>the webmail. The need for a Static IP is really Old School thinking, IIS can
>handle all the request using hostheaders.
>
>Now if your boss absolutely has to have 89 Domains each with its own IP I am
>sure us or most hosting companies can accommodate you but it would take time
>and money to setup the IP block.
>
>Rick Eidson
>Partner & CTO
>ArcRiver Technology, LLC
>ASP, PHP, PERL, Cold Fusion Hosting Kansas City
>http://www.arcriver.com/ <http://www.arcriver.com/>
>
>Kansas City Musicians
>http://www.kcjukebox.com/
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:23 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: SOT: many IPS or one?
>
>I do virtual hosting all the time and have no problems.  If you're
>using SSL, you'll run into issues, because you need to have a separate
>IP for each individual SSL certificate, but for non-SSL hosting, it's
>great.
>
>The argument against it is that clients which don't support HTTP1.1
>will only ever get the default host on the IP address, becuase they
>don't send a host header, but you'll be hard pressed to find such a
>client anywhere.
>
>cheers,
>barneyb
>
>On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:59:52 -0400, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a sort of off-topic question for you guys concerning hosting
> > set-ups.  We have about 89 domains that we are currently hosting at XO
> > communications for cheap cheap money.  All of them are static sites - html
> > only - we do our CF hosting elsewhere (I'll leave 'who' up to your
> > imaginations to avoid 'my host is better than yours'
> > conversations).  Recently, XO decided that they are going to start
>charging
> > us an arm and a leg for our hosting, yet still keep the same crappy
> > customer service and questionable uptime.  So, we have started to look
> > elsewhere for hosting options.  The cheapest option given to us from most
> > hosting companies is using one IP address and having all sites reside
>under
> > the one IP using IIS redirects (I guess, I'm not an IIS guy).  We are used
> > to having one IP per domain at XO...
> >
> > My boss is totally against going this route, but has no reason to do
> > so.  What I want to know is why would this matter?  Search Engines, etc
> > don't care what our IP address is, right?  Are there any real reasons that
> > we should have a separate IP for every account, even if we were to bundle
> > all of our CF accounts into one host?  The hosting companies are reputable
> > large (not cheap or crappy service) companies, so those things are not an
> > issue, we have already weeded out the dregs...
> >
> > Thanks for the insights!
> >
> > Ray
>--
>Barney Boisvert
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>360.319.6145
>http://www.barneyb.com
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>
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