Per website IP, 2 IPs for one site

[bokan]

Some hosting provider offer failover IP. These "virtuals" IP could be instantly redirected to real server IPs. That's handy when you change server hardware. But it can also being used for SEO. Here, in europe, it is very important for SEO to have IP from the country where your website audiance is. Serious hosting company offer failover IP from any country to be tunneled right to your server. This way google think one site is in Germany, another one in France even if they are on the same server.

No problem to setup many IP and assign them to users in DA. The problem comes when one user needs several websites on different IP.

I have advised all my customers to use DA, there's something like 20 servers using DA now. And since google advised to use local IP in their latest SEO guide, more and more customers want this feature.

The CMD_CUSTOM_HTTPD page does not allow to change IP. The custom parameters are inserted inside <Virtualhost>..</VirtualHost> tags but IP comes in the head tag like this <Virtualhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxort>.

I understand it could be quite lot of work to add this feature the fancy way.

The short solution would be to provide an "IP field" on the website creation page. If this field exists, it is embed instead of the regular IP in <Virtualhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxort> for this site. This field should be string so you can add many IPsorts to one site. It should also be possible to disable this field in Admin interface.

If this is not possible, please give me a way to do that manualy.

thanks

 

[bokan]

found the Ip file

I just discover the ip file
/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/#USER#/#DOMAIN#.ip.list

Nice but it would be better that my user can setup this file from the interface.

 

[bokan]

error

The path is wrong in the previous post. The right one is :

/usr/local/directadmin/data/users/#USER#/domains/#DOMAIN#.ip.list

 

[kevinb]

I have advised all my customers to use DA, there's something like 20 servers using DA now. And since google advised to use local IP in their latest SEO guide, more and more customers want this feature.

Do you have a link to this. I can't believe with IPv4 runout coming that Google is recommending sites have a dedicated IP in a shared environment.

 

[Arieh]

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399

Sites with country-coded top-level domains (such as .ie) are already associated with a geographic region, in this case Ireland. In this case, you won't be able to specify a geographic location.

If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we'll rely largely on the site's country domain (.ca, .de, etc.). If an international domain (.com, .org, .eu, etc) has been used, we'll rely on the IP address.

So if you can take them on their word, setting the preferred country in webmaster tools should be enough.

 

[nobaloney]

This question is probably off-topic, and I'll start by saying that I don't use Webmaster Tools; I have a webmaster who does that...

But...

For us, we don't want to be limited to local search; we want people worldwide to be able to find our site and buy from us.

Do many people really want to use region searches? The only time I want to do that is when I'm in my car and trying to find the nearest Taco Bell.

Jeff

 

[Arieh]

Well a country is quite the different region then a 10 miles radius for a shop or something. Many customers who don't run an internet business are just company's who only target their own country. Each country in the EU has its own google with different results; google.nl/de/fr/se/fi and so on.