Go Daddy Ultimate Hosting?

[socialfirestarter]

I host several websites for my clients in my Go Daddy account. I've currently got each site on it's own hosting plan (about $5-$9 per month per site) but I was recently on the phone with Go Daddy and they suggested migrating everything to an Ultimate hosting plan, which allows me to host an unlimited number of websites, sql databases, etc for a set price. Will this negatively effect my SEO as all of my sites will essentially be tied together? I can save a few hundred dollars per year, but it's definitely not worth it if all of my clients' sites tank.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

As others have mentioned, unless you are using dedicated servers it's likely most of your accounts are already closely related IPs and/or c-blocks already, so switching to a combined account will likely make little or no difference.

In my personal opinion, I'm not a huge fan of Godaddy for my own hosting as I have a perception of a lot of low-quality sites also hosting there, which could influence my performance if they share the same server as myself, or spam from the same IP. I perfer to go with dedicated hosting or choose a slightly more pricey host to "raise the bar" on my neighbors. Probably doesn't make a big difference in the end but I have my superstitions.

[Dan-Lawrence]

sorry, just saw both this q&a question and the news article within a few minutes of each other so just posted in case of interest, certainly not advocating an opinion either way just sharing the info.

[LeadDiscovery]

Dan - Lets leave political commentary to other forums. It doesn't belong here in an SEO forum. I think Parsons is a sexist idiot, but you can find fault with any and every major organization or person. We don't want to turn this valuable area into everyone's place to post info on their personal cause(s).

[Dan-Lawrence]

possible ethical considerations with Go Daddy to:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372007/Is-worst-branding-GoDaddy-boss-Bob-Parsons-filmed-shooting-elephant-Zimbabwe-villagers-wearing-company-logo-hack-carcass-Bob-Parsons.html

[FedeEinhorn]

There shouldn't be any SEO downside as all the "micro" hosting accounts will have, is the same IP, and that's is no longer considered when ranking a Website.

You can also have more than 1 IP address on the server and assign a different IP to each site, that can help you prevent possible spam generated by one of your customers that if they share the same IP all of them will be affected.

[Graphics_Online_SEO]

If your websites link extensively to each other thus forming a "Private SEO Linking Network", then yes, having it all together on one Server or Data Center is a bad thing.

However, just because each website has its own hosting plan with Go Daddy doesn't mean that they are on different Servers or Data Centers. Odds are, they are all probably in the same Data Center anyway (physically located in the same place).

Chances are, moving to an "Ultimate Hosting Plan" will not result in any changes to your websites; it will just be an "Accounting" change.