Need advice on shared IP's

[ToolGuy]

I got an ICQ from someone yesterday asking where one of my sites went and I wasn't sure what he was talking about so I went and had a look. What I found didn't make my day in the least. I have been using a small local hosting company since day one and haven't had any major problems until now. Currently I have somewhere around 20 domains all pointing to different IP's on 4 different virtual accounts, well that's what I had, I should say. Without letting any of their customers know, they decided to point EVERY ONE of the domains they host to the SAME IP # and use some sort of name based system instead. I called them up and told them that if anybody that hosts through them gets their IP banned from a search engine then everyone could possibly and most likely would be banned as well. They disagreed and said that engines use names rather than IP #'s and acted like I had no idea what I was talking about. Maybe I don't but that would mean alot of search engine resource sites don't either, since this is where I get my information.
Does anybody know if there are any other problems I can inform them about with this new setup? Am I mislead about engines banning IP's or should I just go ahead and get banned from the bigger engines to try and prove my point?...lol

[Mango]

changing IP addresses of websites is never a good idea. it will lower your traffic from any source. a decent hosting company should never do it, and honestly i don't see any reason to do it... OK, maybe they wanted to save on IP's and lead them all to the same one, but once a site has been set up, keep your hands off of it.

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