Some of us like to know our neighbourhood, create relations with them and create a steady group, others can’t do this because they live in a big city where it is hard to accomplish this, but even so, sometimes they say something is not right….
Curiosity is a natural thing, and if it is natural to want to know whats going on our neighbourhood, and since 90% of us has a shared hosting account, why not get curious on whom are we sharing the server with?
That is possible with a reverse ip tool such as myIPneighbors. There are several other sites that offer the same service, but this is the one i use.
This tool grabs results from search engines to get sites with the same IP. Off course the results shown may not be the total number of hosted sites at the server, but it is close to that.
For example, i did a check on my domain name and got a total of 156 sites. First impression is that this server is not overcrowded ( i have found server with more than 900 different sites), but i have found some neighbours that run adult sites. SInce im no puritan and none of them seem to break any law im ok with them, as long they don’t lag the server.
SEO issues:
Since getting links to a website is very easy, you just need to create hundreds of sites linking to yours. But these links usually come from the same IP, so Search engines tend to value more inbound links that come from a different ip address than our own.
One thing is clear. Having several sites on one ip is nothing to worry.
Website Filtering:
Some countries like China block ip’s, some libraries or public services or even filtering services to protect children to access unwanted sites may block a site due to law infringement, not suitable for kids or contains viruses, adware or spyware. The bad news may be if the banned site gets also the ip banned, and you by misfortune get also blocked because you share the same ip.
But this is very rare to happen, at least i don’t know anyone affected by this, so i wouldn’t worry about website filtering.
