The result, the method so you can repeat it on your own domains in about ninety seconds, and an honest decision table — including the rows where the answer is that your CDN is already enough:
https://t.co/p5VrWRIunI
#cdn#proxy#webperformance
"Just put everything behind a CDN. Google only sees the CDN."
Tidy, free, and the most common reason operators talk themselves out of buying separate addresses.
It also answers a different question than the one being asked.
A thread on what a proxy actually hides.
So we stopped arguing and measured it.
We run one of our own brands behind a CDN and two on their own authoritative nameservers — same infrastructure, same team.
Same four public lookups against each. We wrote down what came back.
1,300+ distinct Class C blocks. 800 US and 500 EU addresses. One pool.
Shared hosting and an SEO VPS draw from the same one, which is why moving up a tier changes nothing about your diversity.
Worth knowing before you order either. #SEO#WebHosting
https://t.co/kIZyXfZwLb
Which means no address count ever makes the VPS free.
Buy a VPS when something is blocked. Buy addresses when you need addresses. They are different purchases.
https://t.co/kIZyXfZwLb
Hot take: most "upgrade to a VPS for SEO" advice is selling you a machine to solve a network problem.
If your sites share a footprint, a bigger server does not separate them. Addresses do.
And the arithmetic everyone tries does not work either.
People divide the VPS monthly by the per-IP shared rate to find the count where it "pays for itself".
Addresses are a separate order on both tiers. The server is an added line, not a substitute.
The test is one sentence: name the capability that is blocked today.
If the sentence will not come, the answer is not a VPS.
Full comparison, the five signals, and why the usual break-even sum is wrong:
https://t.co/kIZyXfZwLb
Almost every page written about SEO VPS hosting is written by somebody selling the upgrade.
So they all reach the same conclusion. Buy the bigger tier. Grow into it.
Here is the part a sales page has no reason to mention.
Three things that look like a VPS problem and are not:
A slow site is usually an uncached page.
A connected footprint is usually your nameservers, not your IPs.
A ranking drop is rarely the server class.
Each has a cheaper fix that works better. #SEO#WebHosting
2,097,152 distinct /24 prefixes exist in the historic Class C range.
The largest commercial pool on the market is roughly six hundredths of one percent of it.
Distinctiveness was never the scarce thing. Containment is.
https://t.co/cYifFhJhd8
#SEOHosting#DedicatedIP
What separation DOES buy is blast radius control. Smaller promise, far more defensible.
We scored all five claims honestly — including the two that are still true:
https://t.co/cYifFhJhd8
#SEOHosting#LinkBuilding
Google's spam policies define link schemes by behavior — buying, exchanging, building at scale.
Addressing is not mentioned. At all.
A link scheme spread across forty prefixes is still a link scheme. The IPs buy you nothing on that axis.