[cobalt-users] IP vs Name Based Hosting

["Brian Curtis" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've been watching the discussions recently regarding IP and IPless hosting.
While I think name based hosting is nice, I don't like the idea that I
cannot access my sites by their IPs if something happens to my DNS records.
Plus it give our clients immediate access to their sites even if the DNS
records haven't propagated yet.

What I'm mainly concerned about though, is the fact that you need an
HTTP/1.1 compliant viewing utility.  Have all the major search engines
finally caught up with the times and implemented HTTP/1.1 capable spiders?
If they have not, that pretty much renders name based sites useless within
the search engines, no?  This would not be a good sales pitch to our site
design clients... 'Yep, we can design a beautiful site for you, but you
won't be able to submit to most search engines.'

I'm hoping someone can clarify this a bit for me.

Brian Curtis