Alright guys, so I have a few questions I would really appreciate some feedback on.
I'm running sever software that's reaching end-of-live and a legacy hardware VPS. I'm upgrading to a dedicated server with significant improvements. I'm trying to optimize my name servers, ips, and server in general for speed and seo, in that order.
1. My host is telling me there's no reason to have separate ip addresses for nameservers is that the case? (I do on my old server). Are there really no benefits to having dedicated name server ip addresses?
2. Does hosting name severs on the same domain you're trying to optimize decrease response/load time? Are there really no benefits to having name servers on the same domain as your site or being used only by your one site?
NS1.MAINSITE.ORG and NS2.MAINSITE.ORG are name servers on the same domain as and only for MAINSITE.ORG.
You have two other generic name servers for all other websites on your server.
No benefit?
You might even have 3 dedicated IPs, one for MAINSITE.ORG's NS1, NS2, and it's domain/hosting account.
I already have this site up on my current/old sever but my host is calling me bonkers for wanting to keep the set up.
I'm I totally crazy and just fucking around here?
3. I apparently can't keep my ip addresses, even though I'm with the same host. Will any problems come from this? Any considerations I should be making? Any opportunities?
4. I'd like to add a dedicated ip address to a specific website (MAINSITE.ORG). Should I do this right away, before the final migration? My IP is changing anyway, might as well make it dedicated right away, right?
5. Is this a good or bad time to add an SSL cert? How does a site's IP address impact SEO?
6. If I website had a search engine penalty, what can be done in the server-changing, nameserver-changing, ip-changing process to maybe reduce or remove the penalty? Anything?
In short - are there any speed or seo or any other benefits I might achieve here? I'm mostly interested in speed.
Any other considerations I should have regarding this or moving to a new dedicated server?
I'm running sever software that's reaching end-of-live and a legacy hardware VPS. I'm upgrading to a dedicated server with significant improvements. I'm trying to optimize my name servers, ips, and server in general for speed and seo, in that order.
1. My host is telling me there's no reason to have separate ip addresses for nameservers is that the case? (I do on my old server). Are there really no benefits to having dedicated name server ip addresses?
2. Does hosting name severs on the same domain you're trying to optimize decrease response/load time? Are there really no benefits to having name servers on the same domain as your site or being used only by your one site?
NS1.MAINSITE.ORG and NS2.MAINSITE.ORG are name servers on the same domain as and only for MAINSITE.ORG.
You have two other generic name servers for all other websites on your server.
No benefit?
You might even have 3 dedicated IPs, one for MAINSITE.ORG's NS1, NS2, and it's domain/hosting account.
I already have this site up on my current/old sever but my host is calling me bonkers for wanting to keep the set up.
I'm I totally crazy and just fucking around here?
3. I apparently can't keep my ip addresses, even though I'm with the same host. Will any problems come from this? Any considerations I should be making? Any opportunities?
4. I'd like to add a dedicated ip address to a specific website (MAINSITE.ORG). Should I do this right away, before the final migration? My IP is changing anyway, might as well make it dedicated right away, right?
5. Is this a good or bad time to add an SSL cert? How does a site's IP address impact SEO?
6. If I website had a search engine penalty, what can be done in the server-changing, nameserver-changing, ip-changing process to maybe reduce or remove the penalty? Anything?
In short - are there any speed or seo or any other benefits I might achieve here? I'm mostly interested in speed.
Any other considerations I should have regarding this or moving to a new dedicated server?