Originally Posted by chaze

I see, my bad. But if we can go back. You said there is two reasons for a decicated i.p.: namebased vhosting traffic filtering/shaping and firewalling

Can you explain why a dedicated i.p. is better for this. Not trying to debate I have never heard of these reasons before?

You said something about black lists, if you mean mail blacklists then a dedicated i.p. wouldn't help either since they black list the host names ip not the websites ip.