I was surprised to receive a reply from a potential hosting provider today stating, "Unfortunately we cannot support multiple sites each with their own IP addresses I'm afraid - the european IP address rules do not allow us to assign one for each site." I've been searching relentlessly, but I can find nothing on the web to either discredit or verify the above statement. Do you know if the UK google cares about seperate IP addresses?
Could you explain it a bit more for me please. As far as I know this is the computer that has an IP and not a site - ie a domain-, so if they put all your sites on one server you have one IP for all of them, other wise several IPs. Did you ask them to host each one of your sites on a separate server? I believe they only have one or two computer servers but I am surprised that how they come up with such an excuse too.
It makes no difference to google. If you want to cross link your sites, you would need to have a different class "c" IP - which usually means getting an additional hosting company.
Each hosting server and PC on the web has an IP. Some hosts (like mine) have thousands of sites on 1 IP address without any problems.
I suppose I should ask to have the sites "hosted on separate servers" instead. Duely noted about the class c subnets. I may have to get multiple providers. Thanks.