Should each website on a VPS have it's own IP?

[hxQ&S8ZaVn9e]

Does it even matter anymore? Someone I help with a VPS asked me why they only had 1 IP address and told me they need one for each of their websites (3). I told them it doesn't matter, it's not needed, but they still want me to ticket the provider and request more IPs so each website has it's own one. 

 

[HalfEatenPie]

No it's not needed thanks to VirtualHost.

 

[wlanboy]

Not needed for mail server or webserver. 

 

[Prestige]

It's not needed. Unless s/he needs SSL certificates on each website, or have high traffic (helps with site speed and crashing).

Set up Virtual Hosts with multiple domains.

 

[ItsChrisG]

Each website does *not* need its own IP. Anyone who says that now a days is stuck in the past and quite literally *and* realistically stupid and stuck in the past -OR- trying to get extra IPv4's for some abusive or stupid ulterior purpose.

 

[mikho]

It's not needed. Unless s/he needs SSL certificates on each website

SNI

 

[MannDude]

SNI

Unfortunately there is still a large percentage of folks using XP and old versions of IE that don't support SNI.

 

[mikho]

Unfortunately there is still a large percentage of folks using XP and old versions of IE that don't support SNI.

Yes, and old IE in Windows XP can't do HTML5 either. So to work around that issue, install firefox or Chrome and problem solved.

 

[HalfEatenPie]

How do you remember your username?

Like...  Sorry but it just looks like a giant grouping of random characters.  Almost as if it was a password.  

 

[Hassan]

Of course not it's 2015 haha

 

[hxQ&S8ZaVn9e]

Thank you everyone.

How do you remember your username?

Like...  Sorry but it just looks like a giant grouping of random characters.  Almost as if it was a password.  

I use a password manager to generate passwords and I also use it to make usernames sometimes. Im not very creative so generate random ones.

 

[willie]

There's another thread where this issue came up... using separate ip's can be helpful if a site gets ddos'd.  You can nullroute the dos'd address and the neighboring sites keep accepting traffic.

 

[Onra Host]

It is not needed, though could be very helpful in certain situations like DDoS attacks and spam issues.

Additionally your host might require you to submit a justification on the extra IP's, so you might end up needing some SSL certs either way

 

[weloveservers]

Does it even matter anymore? Someone I help with a VPS asked me why they only had 1 IP address and told me they need one for each of their websites (3). I told them it doesn't matter, it's not needed, but they still want me to ticket the provider and request more IPs so each website has it's own one. 

Depends. Mail servers, yes, but we have virtual hosts, which cPanel WHM utilises on it's default setting.