A kind remind for those who bought a unique IP address for their self-hosted wordpress blog hosted on Dreamhost.com. The one I purchased with a two year plan at $77 for this website didn’t function for one and a half years.
Scott: Hello, Welcome to DreamHost Live Chat, my name is Scott. How can I help you?
you: Sir, my site hollywoodcelebgossips.com had a dedicated IP 75.119.219.79? But why when visiting that IP I am prompted the message of “site temporarily unavailable”?
Scott: Let me take a look
you: Ok, thanks
Scott: Still looking. Something seems wrong with the IP
you: Take your time. In my dreamhost webpanel, under Billing–> Manage account –> Unique IP Addresses section, I have this message: “(0 used, 1 provided on this account) You currently have no unique IPs on this account.”
you: Sir, forget to tell my site is hosted on the VPS
Scott: Yeah. That’s what I am looking into. It’s not showing up.
Scott: no worries
Scott: looks like i have to add one
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : removing A 75.119.219.79
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : removing ftp A 75.119.219.79
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : removing www A 75.119.219.79
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : adding A 69.163.213.148
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : adding ftp A 69.163.213.148
Scott: zone(hollywoodcelebgossips.com)->_save_records : adding www A 69.163.213.148
you: Yupe, i’m not worried. If I didn’t remember mistakenly, that message was over there since the day I purchased the host plan about one and a half years ago
you: Ok, now my IP is changed to 69.163.213.148?
Scott: It just looks like it was never added via your web panel. And yes, that is your new ip address
Scott: I’m running some updates on our end. Once done the IP should work. It will, however, be a bit before the domain resolves to the new IP
you: never minds
you: thanks for your help. what I am only concerned is that hope it will not affect the search engines to index my site
Scott: It should not have any impact on that.
you: Ok, so thank you again, Sir!
Scott: No problem!
you: Have a nice Super Bowl day!
Scott: LOL. You too!
Scott: Running into some minor update issues. should be good to go here in a bit
you: It’s ok. I am confident your guys can do me a great favor.
Scott: OK. the ip is working now
Scott: Let us know if you need anything else.
you: Sure, your kind help has been appreciated so much!
Scott: no prob
