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Google’s John Mueller for the umpteenth time said that sharing IP addresses and/or having your site on a shared server and/or using a CDN that does all of that, is fine for Google Search, SEO and ranking. In fact, he said it is “normal” for sites to do this.

John wrote on X, “There are a limited number of IP addresses, it’s normal for them to be shared.” This was in response to the concern that sharing IPs or hosting with spammy sites can hurt your SEO:

There are a limited number of IP addresses, it’s normal for them to be shared.

— John (@JohnMu) April 3, 2024

I mean, there are super rare cases where Google has banned hosts completely and wipped out a whole ccTLD of sorts. But that is super rare, which I guess is where the rumors started from.

John Mueller added on

VPs hosting stands for virtual private server hosting Virtual private server is essential a private server where as in shared Hosting you would be hosting your website among a multitude of other websites having a private server or a virtual private server is more similar to your own computer this means that your private server or Virtual private server in this case would host specifically your website and no others when you buy a VPs essentially what you are doing is buying your own private server or at least renting it all of the software which runs on this virtual private machine is entirely up to you.

Shared Hosting is where your website is hosted with a multitude of other websites on the same server. This means that the server essentially has the exact same software for each…