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can you buy (rent) a shared IP ?
I wonder if it's possible to buy/rent a shared IP number?
I am aware that shared hosting usually comes with a shared IP, and that is fine. But I would like to put my domains on a VPS, and prefer to be in a pool of domains for privacy reasons. IP should not be black listed though, no spam, porn etc.
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Use cloudflare it'll hide your origin IP
Doh! Of course you are right. Questions feels a bit silly now as I use Cloudflare already.
Make sure you actually turn on cloudflare for it to hide the ip, for all the hostnames. Simply using their DNS services won't do.
Be careful of scripts that connect outbound or send mail that could reveal the origin IP.
Cloudflare aside, you could grab a shared hosting plan and reverse proxy using php curl to achieve a similar effect.
You know that a public IP can't be used on two servers at the same time? So there is no way you can use a shared IP from a shared server on your own VPS.
But you can buy a NAT VPS that uses a shared IP.
I don't want to see the CPU and latency overhead of that on a busy website...
lowendspirit.com - tiny vps's that share a single ipv4 address (you get some NAT ports and ipv6 addresses).
They're not super reliable, e.g. if one person gets DOS'd then everyone is hosed, but they work most of the time and are ok for small non-critical sites.
There's also the issue of anonymous domain name registration, which there's another thread about...
Configured correctly, NGINX is a great choice
He's right. Its not for busy websites. However, it works fine for low traffic websites that just want to mask their IP.
Nginx, sure, which does not run on a webhosting plan.