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VPS with two IP addresses - can they be connected
| Posted by Doodled, 04-18-2016, 05:30 PM | |
I'm looking to move hosting of a client to KnownHost - heard many good things about them and have many bad headaches with a current host.
My client has two websites that sell similar products but to different market sectors and due to the nature of the industry they don't want either sector to realise they own both sites - just a characteristic of the industry and nothing dodgy!
Currently they host each website on a different VPS (for different IP addresses) and the domains are registered in different locations.
KnownHost offers two IP addresses with one VPS so I am wondering if, with this type of hosting, is there any way a user could connect the two IP addresses together and know they are on the same server .... ?
Any pointers appreciated.
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| Posted by Andei, 04-18-2016, 05:42 PM | |
If your VPS has 2 IPs, then you will be able to assign each of those two website a different IP address, if that's what you're concerned about.
You should talk to KnownHost support, so they can help you with any issues/questions you may have, their support is quite good.
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| Posted by Doodled, 04-18-2016, 05:49 PM | |
Thanks Andei - I have talked to KnownHost and they have assured me that the two IP addresses cannot be connected but you know --- sales chat <-> reality.
Hence the question
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| Posted by madRoosterTony, 04-18-2016, 05:55 PM | |
I think more of what you saying is, can an end user search out the IP address and find out the two sites are on the same server? Which then might lead to a client thinking the sites are owned by the same person.
Its my guess Knownhost would give you to adjacent IP addresses. i.e. 192.168.1.10 / 192.168.1.11 In this case an end user could look up each IP and see they both belong to Knownhost, which then might lead to the conclusion you do not want.
If both IPs are owned by the same hosting company you will always cause this suspicion by anyone that is technical. One way around this might to be to use a service like Cloudflare on one of the sites, which would hide its real IP.
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| Posted by KnownHost-Jonathan, 04-18-2016, 05:59 PM | |
A traceroute would make it pretty obvious they reside in the same place.
Tony's recommendation of Cloudflare is probably the best bet. It'd be pretty simple to hide the IP from all but the most technical. Outbound email for example would still contain the server's real IP address if you send email from the server, but for what you're trying to accomplish it doesn't sound like the folks would be techy enough to connect the dots since the obvious methods would be hidden by CF.
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| Posted by Doodled, 04-18-2016, 06:12 PM | |
I'm strongly considering CloudFlare for one of the sites anyway so this may well be the way to go - thank you for your thoughts.
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