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Frequently Asked Questions about SEO hosting

Everything people actually ask us before they buy dedicated IPs: what Class C, B and A really separate, how instant activation works, what a migration involves, and exactly what an address costs. Every answer carries a number you can check against the order form.

46 quick answers across 11 topics

Plus 104 in-depth guides across 12 more topics below · 150 in total

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distinct Class C blocks · 800 US and 500 EU dedicated IPs
99.9%
uptime guarantee · daily and weekly backups
30-day
money-back guarantee · instant activation since 2009

Basics

7 questions
What is SEO hosting?

SEO hosting places each of your websites on its own dedicated IP address, with its own C-block and private nameservers, instead of sharing one IP with thousands of strangers.

Is SEO hosting good for PBNs (private blog networks)?

It is exactly what specialized SEO hosting is built for.

Which control panel do you use?

Industry-standard cPanel/WHM with Softaculous. One WHM login gives you every account in one place, while each site still looks fully independent from the outside.

How well do you support WordPress?

First-class. LiteSpeed servers with LSCache, free SSL certificates, no limits on plugins or themes, SSH/FTP access, and Multi-WP install: hand us a list of domains and get WordPress automatically...

Does Google penalize SEO hosting?

Hosting sites on dedicated IPs is not against any guideline: it is simply good infrastructure hygiene.

How many websites can I host on one account?

One site per dedicated IP is the whole point, so in practice your site count is your IP count: a single USA Class C order runs from 2 to 800 addresses and a European one from 2 to 500.

How long has SEOHost.net been running?

Since 2009. Seo Hosting LTD is registered at 19 St. Mark Street, Valletta, Malta, and support runs 24/7/365, so by ticket in the portal or by phone on +356 20 341591.

Class C vs B vs A

4 questions
What is the difference between Class A, B and C IP hosting?

The class refers to which part of the IP address varies across your network.

Which IP class should I pick for a network of 50 sites?

Class C, in almost every case. It is the only tier that scales that far in a single order: up to 800 addresses in the USA, against 70 for Class B and 20 for Class A.

Why does Class A cost roughly twice as much as Class C?

Scarcity, not features. Only 255 Class A blocks exist in the entire IPv4 address space and we hold 10% of them, so supply is fixed and small: 3 to 20 addresses per USA order and 3 to 20 in Europe.

What exactly does Class B buy me over Class C?

The second octet instead of the third: different parent networks rather than different blocks inside one.

IP diversity

5 questions
Are your Class C IPs really distinct and non-consecutive?

Yes. We maintain 1,300+ non-consecutive Class C IPs: 800 in the USA and 500 in Europe.

Where are your datacenters?

USA and Europe. You choose the region per order: 800 US IPs and 500 EU IPs are available, and you can mix regions across orders for geographic diversity, latency or jurisdiction preferences.

What does non-consecutive actually mean in practice?

That the third octet jumps instead of counting. Handing you 198.18.0.xx, 198.18.1.xx, 198.18.2.xx and 198.18.3.xx is four Class C blocks on paper and one contiguous range in reality: one purchase...

Can I choose which European country my IPs are located in?

Yes. You pick the European IP location when you order. IP locations across the 500-address EU pool include Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Poland, Finland and Denmark: 9...

Can I see and change which IP each site sits on?

Yes. The IP Manager tool lists every address on your account and lets you assign or swap them per site yourself, without opening a ticket.

Instant activation

3 questions
How fast is activation, really?

Instant. Provisioning is fully automated and runs 24/7: choose location, IP class and IP count, pay, and your account activates the moment payment clears.

What is actually ready the moment payment clears?

Three things at once: your IP allocation, your cPanel/WHM login and your nameserver setup.

Can I add IPs to a running account without downtime?

Yes. Extra addresses are a second order on the same account, not a rebuild: existing sites keep the IPs they already have and nothing is moved or recreated.

Migration

3 questions
Do you offer free migration?

On the managed products, yes: shared SEO hosting, the Class C, B and A IP plans and managed WordPress.

Will my sites go down while they are being moved?

They should not. Everything is copied first and DNS is only switched once the new copy answers correctly, so for domains that are propagated properly the move is invisible: zero downtime is the...

Can you migrate a whole network in one go?

Yes, and that is the common case here rather than the exception.

Billing & money-back

4 questions
How does the 30-day money-back guarantee work?

Try any hosting plan for 30 days. If it is not what you expected, open a ticket and we refund your hosting fee: no questions, no forms, no hoops.

How do payments and billing cycles work?

We accept Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Monthly billing is standard; longer terms earn real discounts: 10% off annual, 20% off 2-year and 30% off 3-year terms.

What is the lowest price per IP I can actually reach?

$2.63 per IP per month: the cheapest price anywhere on this site. It is the $3.75 USA Class C volume band with the longest term discount applied at checkout.

Does the price per IP drop as I order more?

Yes, in volume bands, and the band rate applies to the whole order rather than only the addresses above the threshold, so crossing a boundary makes every address you already hold cheaper.

Uptime & backups

3 questions
What about uptime and backups?

We guarantee 99.9% uptime with constantly monitored services: your sites get crawled around the clock, so we keep them reachable around the clock.

What does the 99.9% uptime figure actually cover?

Availability of the hosting platform your sites answer from, monitored continuously rather than sampled now and then.

How do backups work, and can I restore just one file?

Automated daily and weekly backups run on our servers for every plan, from the 2-IP entry order upward: backups are not a paid tier here.

Nameservers & DNS

3 questions
Do I get private nameservers for each domain?

Yes, on shared SEO hosting, the Class C/B/A IP plans and managed WordPress. Every domain can run its own ns1/ns2 private nameservers, created in a couple of clicks in WHM.

How do I create private nameservers for a domain?

In WHM, in a couple of clicks. You register ns1 and ns2 host records for the domain at its registrar, pointing them at addresses from your own allocation, then set the domain to use that pair.

Why do shared nameservers undo IP diversity?

Because a nameserver is a single public record that anyone can look up in one query.

VPS & Dedicated scaling

4 questions
Can I start small and scale up later?

Anytime. Start with 2 IPs and add more straight from the dashboard as your network grows, up to 800 in the USA and 500 in the EU on Class C.

When should I move from shared SEO hosting to a VPS?

When what you need is root access, not more addresses. SEO VPS is KVM with full root SSH, starting at $55.00 per month on a 2-year term in the USA for 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, and $68.75...

What do the bare metal dedicated servers give me?

A whole machine, not a slice of one. USA dedicated starts at $159.20 per month on a 2-year term for an Intel Xeon E-2136 at 6c / 12t with 16GB RAM and 3x400GB SSD, across 7 configurations that reach...

Can I attach my diverse IPs to a VPS or dedicated server?

Yes. That is the normal way these are ordered. The same pool of 1,300+ distinct Class C blocks feeds shared hosting, VPS and bare metal alike, so a dedicated server can carry Class C and Class B...

Platform & performance

5 questions
Do you run CloudLinux, and what does it change for me?

Yes, on every shared and WordPress server. Your account gets its own reserved slice of the machine instead of competing for one shared pool, so a busy stranger cannot slow your sites down, and one...

Is LiteSpeed included, or is it an upgrade?

On shared SEO hosting and managed WordPress, yes: included at no extra cost, and it is the web server your sites are served by rather than a paid tier.

Is LSCache set up for me, or do I configure it?

On managed WordPress plans it arrives configured. On a standard hosting account you install the plugin and switch it on, which takes about a minute per site.

Can each of my sites run a different PHP version?

Yes, chosen per account from the control panel. One account can run a current release while another stays on an older one.

What happens when a site hits its resource limit?

That account slows down and nothing else does. Which ceiling you reached decides the symptom: processor gives sluggish pages under load, memory gives an abrupt error, concurrency makes visitors queue.

Managing many accounts

5 questions
Do I get WHM, or only cPanel?

Both. WHM manages the accounts, cPanel manages one account's contents.

Should each site get its own cPanel account?

Usually yes, and the reason is not performance. An account is the boundary for the resource ceiling, the PHP version, the filesystem and the disk quota.

Can I move a site between my own accounts?

Yes, and it is a routine operation rather than a migration, since both accounts are already yours on the same server.

What happens to my dedicated IP if I cancel an account?

Suspension changes nothing: the site stops serving, everything else including the address assignment stays exactly as it was.

Can I automate account tasks without sharing my password?

Yes, with a scoped API token. It can be limited to the permissions one script needs, revoked on its own without breaking anything else, and traced in logs because it is named.

Still stuck? Open a ticket.

If your question is not in these 46 answers, ask it. Tickets are answered 24/7/365 by people who run the infrastructure, and pre-sales questions cost nothing, including “will this actually work for what I am building?”. Every plan is backed by the 30-day money-back guarantee, so the answer is testable either way.

Guides, in depth

104 longer articles, the second half of the 150 answers on this page. The 46 short ones are above; these go deeper: deciding what to buy, planning a network, launching without mistakes and working out what is actually wrong when something breaks. 43 of them also carry a short captioned screen walkthrough of the job itself, playable on the page.

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