An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
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Is unique IP address a must for SSL?
The shared hosting company told me that if I buy an IP address then it will be applicable for the addon domains too. What does it mean? Then the SSL certificate won't work since there will be more ...
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Shared IP vs. Dedicated IP
What are all the pros and cons of a dedicated IP rather than shared IP for my website? When would I need a dedicated IP?
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Will Google and other search engines follow IP address only sites (i.e., no URL)
Will Google and other search engines follow links to and index sites that don't have a URL, but instead just use their IP address's (obviously they would need a unique IP) ?
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Can I make my IP address look as if it is from another country, not from the US?
The top level domain .md is works as follows:
(A) If you are from the US, Canada, or a few other countries, you have to register .md domains through max.md for exorbitant prices, because they figure ...
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Disadvantages of a fake phpMyAdmin honeypot that causes ip blacklisting and robots.txt disallow/exclusion of the honeypot?
I'm trying to figure out whether I should set up a honeypot system with a fake phpMyAdmin (site gets hits all the time with people spidering for insecurities with that app).
My thought was to create ...
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How can I compile an IP address to country lookup database to make available for free?
How would I go about compiling an accurate database of IP addresses and their related countries to make available as an open source download for any web developer who wants to perform a geographic IP ...
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Would changing IP addresses affect my SEO
We're about to change our website from a shared hosting account to run on a VPS, mainly so we have our own resources and control over server settings.
An IP address is included with the VPS. What I ...
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Is collecting IP address and user agents on form submission illegal in the U.S.?
I'm creating a website where I collect the name, email, state, and an optional photo of a user. Before the user submits the form, they have to agree to the terms of the site. For testing and ...
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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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Geolocate service I can use?
I can access very accurate geolocate info from Google Analytics, but is there any way to access the geolocate information of Google or otherwise for an IP address, from a computer program, like a web ...
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Multiple IP addresses to a server
I am trying to figure out the best option for web hosting of a startup business. I want to get a VPS hosting for this business and one factor that affects the price is the number of IP addresses.
I ...
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Download tracking by IP
Is it possible to track downloads from a website by IP address?
Ideally, I would like to see a log file with possibly time stamps, occurrences, and who (IP address, and/or country of origin).
If ...
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Identical spam coming from many different (but similar) IP addresses
A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group ...
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Single IP multiple servers
I have seen that some IPs are tied to multiple servers (physical machines). Example: check the ping times of one of GoDaddy's nameservers:
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how can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their ips?
1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time)
2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are ...
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The same user from different IP-addresses?
Has anybody encountered the situation when the same user from the same session ID and the same browser requested 2 different scripts on the same webserver inside the duration of 30 sec from two ...
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What does an asterisk/star in traceroute mean?
The below is a part of traceroute to my hosted server:
9 ae-2-2.ebr2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.132.106) 19.433 ms 19.599 ms 19.275 ms
10 ae-72-72.csw2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.151.141) 19.496 ...
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SEO- IP-based Language Change
I have a site,The site have lot of visitors from international.The site content currently in English.I want to change language dynamically by using PHP code,this done based on the requesting IP ...
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Using a custom domain: How to update an A-record?
Tumblr makes it seem relatively easy to use a custom domain name.
For a two-level domain:
point A-record (IP address) to 66.6.44.4
But my registrar (Domain.com), doesn't make this intuitive, as ...
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Variable IPs: How variable are they? Best practices for tracking
There are a lot of questions on StackOverflow relating to session security / session hijacking, but there doesn't seem to be a really good solution to the problem. The three most common suggestions ...
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How to configure apache to allow access to subdomain on my local ip address
I would like to have others inside my local network access resources on my computer at outsideprojects.192.168.0.10. I am running Apache and have a virtual host configured so I can access it at ...
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How to restrict site access to all countries except mine with .htaccess?
I used this tool to download list in ".htaccess allow" format to allow traffic from my country and restrict all others but it's still accessible when visiting from bunch of foreign proxies.
I'm ...
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Apache logs: “::1 … ”OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
Just looking at logs of a not-so-busy site on one of our Apache servers and notice tons of these in the log:
::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:40 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
::1 - - ...
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How can I change the location of my ip address to specific citiies/places when browsing?
I am based in Europe and I would like to test my website as if I am located in New York.
I have some specific features that will be visible based on cities.
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What is the SEO impact of moving my domain to another IP address and what is the right way of doing this?
I am planning to move several websites to a new hosting provider - keeping the same URL but will resolve to different IP addresses.
For example, some sites are Canadian content-only sites, hosted on ...
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Multiple websites on a single IP address, HOW?
I have a VDS server and an dedicated IP address. the question is how to add multiple sites in a single domain?
For example I have 3 sites as below:
www.company.co
www.webdesign.com
www.inet.com
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IP - Country based ad delivery
I am looking for an ad manager script/system (open source or paid) which can deliver different ads based on the IP - country of the visitors. Would be nice if you can name one if you know!
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netblock ip - own hosting - home servers
I host 2 websites that generate a pretty substantial traffic (about 6000 unique visitors a day both). I have business Internet at home and I own one static IP from my ISP. I run my own servers. ...
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Error 404 (Not Found)!
My website is www.sbsangpi.com and I checked the IP address of my website is (173.194.72.121).
Whenever I browse 173.194.72.121, I got message "ERROR 404(Not Found)!!!"
I use blogger and redirected ...
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Shared IP address
My website share the same IP address with a lot of other internet sites (500) that are not mine. How is this possible? is this affecting my SEO? Thanks
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Spam prevention through IP tracking
I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want ...
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Why am I getting cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi coming up when I browse my webpage?
I've recently set up a website with a smaller hosting company. The plan has a dedicated IP. They sent me emails to say it's all set up, but now their support channels are all unresponsive even though ...
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Trigger IP ban based on request of given file?
I run a website where "x.php" was known to have vulnerabilities. The vulnerability has been fixed and I don't have "x.php" on my site anymore.
As such with major public vulnerabilities, it seems ...
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How do I map a customer's domain to a page in my website?
I'm considering starting a website that allows customers to map a domain they own and control, to their page or subdomain in my site. Do I need to have an IP address for each customer domain? Is this ...
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change the static IP address to domain name
I have a static IP and hosted my site in this.Working fine. But I want to change the URL name (static IP) to a domain name. I have one domain name already registered.
I have http://xx.xx.xx.xx/ but I ...
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How to make Htaccess file call external IP block lists?
Well, I don’t know if this is an easy thing to do, but I haven’t figured it out yet. Instead of continually updating my Htaccess file with newly updated country IP block lists (because my htaccess ...
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SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions
I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location.
What I'm doing is to get information from the IP ...
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Determine domain name registered in a name server
Suppose I have a new nameserver that is set up to associate my domain name with the IP address of my new web server (but isn't a nameserver for my domain name yet). My domain name is still using with ...
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Assigning domains to IP addresses
If I have registered multiple domain names but only intend to use one domain name for the website in question and put 301 redirects in place for all of the others, do I only need assign one domain ...
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What is a “Public DNS registered IP address”?
I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand:
Refers to the ability of the group of ...
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Unable to ping ip address between two locations
I have two locations office and home. From home I am unable to access my mail server. and from the office I am unable to access my personal web server.
now these two locations are about 100 yards ...
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Does ARIN require ISPs ask for SSL key pairs before issuing an IP address?
I've just asked for a new IP address for an SSL website, and my ISP responded:
Before we can assign the 1 Additional IP Address you requested for [server name], we
must first ask you to provide ...
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Targeting advertising for T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile users
We'd like to target our advertising to Virgin Mobile users.
However, Virgin Mobile is actually on the T-Mobile network. So when we do a lookup of the IP address it reports T-Mobile.
So this gives 2 ...
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Options for geotargeting content
My company is creating a web portal that is designed to put relevant local geographic data in front of our users. Aside from using IP addresses, which are increasingly becoming less reliable as a ...
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How to Add Two Domains ON 1 IP using webmin
I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains site1.com and site2.net.
I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers ns1.site1.com and ns2.site1.com ...
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Multiple IPs for customer in Plesk 11
First of all, please forgive me if my question sounds dumb, as I'm not very skilled in sys admin...
For a shared web hosting plan, my host (which is a reseller) used to provide 3 different IPs for a ...
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Do Spambots have access to unlimited IP addresses?
I have been attacked for weeks by the same spambot trying to brute force the login page. I have a login security module now installed on my Drupal 6 website and it bans on IP after x amount of ...
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webhosting with IP access
I'm using a shared webhosting service but I can't access my website using http://ip.ad.dre.sse of the website, I have activated a dedicated IP service but the problem has not been solved. What do you ...
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Why does StatCounter show less unique visitors than my Apache access log?
StatCounter shows yesterday as seeing 10,611 unique visitors to my site.
I wrote a script that counted the number of unique IP addresses in yesterday's Apache access log. It counted 14,190 unique IP ...
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Why Is Another Domain Resolving To My IP Address?
I'm not really sure if this is something that I should worry about... I'm currently renting a dedicated server which is hosting a website I've created. The domain of the website was registered with ...
