Re: [cobalt-users] IP vs Name Based Hosting

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Brian Curtis wrote:

Well, googlebot's spider couldn't handle virtual hosts untill about 2 or 3
months ago, but they finally fixed it (it was caching 404 pages too, heh)

I've been getting domain names registered and propogated in 3 days or so
lately, and that's using network sol , not exactlly the fastest folks
around. how fast is fast ?...altavista,lycos,aol's silly search all handle
it, i've looked,netscape netfind is now bases on the same engine as
googlebot...
directory index's like dmoz.org and yahoo don't care...

On the other hand, i've seen one cache site in the .uk that was getting
very confused (it was asking for pages on one site that were on another
site at the same IP )

HTTP 1.1 has been around rather a while now, how many people are really
using netscape 1.1? i havn't seen a log hot from 2.0 or earlier in a year

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> 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
> 
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