Does Hostvento Hosting support IP canonicalization?

It is possible to configure IP canonicalization for your account. One method for SEO (search engine optimization) is IP canonicalization. An IP address that has been canonicalized for a site will reroute to the domain name.

For instance, visitors should be redirected to either www.example.com or example.com (where example.com is your domain name) if they type your IP address into their web browser. If not, a search engine could index your website using both the domain name and the IP address. The search engine ranking of your website could be negatively impacted by this duplicate content.

IP canonicalization does not ensure higher search engine rankings for websites. There are numerous SEO strategies accessible, and search engine providers (for understandable reasons) withhold which strategies improve or degrade a site’s rating.

Requirements

There are two requirements for setting up IP canonicalization:

• You must have a dedicated IP address. If your account does not already have a dedicated IP address (such as a default shared hosting account), you must purchase one.
• You must set up a rewrite rule in an .htaccess file that redirects your IP address to your domain name. For example, the following configuration lines demonstrate one possible implementation. Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your own IP address, and replace example.com with your domain name:RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xxx\.xxx\.xxx\.xxx RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]For more information about how to use .htaccess files, please see this article.