Summary: The most common PBN footprints are shared name servers, single-owner IP ranges, identical SOA records, and "bad neighborhood" IPs that exclusively host other PBNs. Bulk Buy Hosting prevents all six by placing your sites on cPanel and DirectAdmin reseller accounts at more than 10 popular shared hosting companies, so your IPs, name servers, ASNs and SOA records all match real shared-hosting customers, not a PBN host.
Footprints We Prevent
- No shared "Bulk Buy Hosting" name servers: every account uses the underlying provider's own name servers (ns1.hawkhost.com, ns1.chemicloud.com, etc).
- No single-owner IP range: IPs are owned by more than 10 different hosting providers across different ASNs.
- No dedicated-IP "bad neighborhoods": every IP is shared with 250–1,500+ real customer websites at the underlying provider.
- No provider concentration: we enforce a 20% cap on any single provider within your account.
- No SOA mismatches: SOA records match the host's default (e.g., the HawkHost default contact for HawkHost-hosted sites), never your own email.
- No visible link to Bulk Buy Hosting: no part of the DNS chain or IP registration traces back to us.
How We’re Different From Other PBN Hosting Providers
Bulk Buy Hosting was built from the ground up with the most paranoid PBN owners (like myself) in mind.
In 2015, I was tired of managing a huge spreadsheet of cheap hosting accounts from Web Hosting Talk, of hosts disappearing after three months and taking my sites offline, and of the poor-quality servers they ran.
When I looked at the other sites on those servers, I quickly realized the only people buying cheap hosting on that forum were other PBN owners. Later, in 2018, when I started buying small hosting companies, I found that some owners knew their main customers were PBN owners and were creating multiple brands to take advantage of it.
Some of those cheap hosts had every site on their IPs deindexed because there were too many low-quality sites on them. I saw it happen to several of my own networks, and to friends’ networks on the same providers, at the same time.
When I looked at the other PBN hosting providers, I saw an even bigger problem. The PBN hosting provider that everyone was talking about uses VPS providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode, which means they have dedicated IPs and the only other sites on those IPs are other PBNs. That creates a bad neighborhood, which is likely to end up with the same deindexation result as the cheap hosts.
I wanted my PBN on IPs shared with genuine sites, which you only get from larger hosting providers like the ones we use. So I created Bulk Buy Hosting to solve that problem for myself and other PBN owners.
Name Server Footprints
We use each hosting partner’s own white-label name servers, so a site on a HawkHost server uses HawkHost’s shared name servers, just like every other HawkHost customer. Thousands of other sites use the same name servers, so yours blends in.
We’ve seen other providers use a custom name server domain that only their own customers use, which is a footprint that can get a whole network deindexed.
IP Diversity and IP Ownership
We don’t own any of the IPs your sites use. They’re shared IPs owned by our hosting partners, not dedicated VPS IPs used only by our customers.
Every domain gets its own unique IP, and because those IPs belong to different partners, such as Namecheap and Hosting.com (formerly A2), their ownership is diverse too.
Server Location/Data Center Diversity
With more than 10 hosting partners, your sites land in many different data centers across the US, Canada, UK, EU and Asia-Pacific. That spread happens naturally as we deploy, and we never put more than 20% of your sites with any single provider.
SOA Records
The SOA (Start of Authority) record is part of the basic information a name server returns about a domain, and it includes a contact email.
Your SOA records always match what the hosting partner sets for its own customers, so a site on a HawkHost server shows HawkHost’s default contact rather than your email address.
You can check the SOA record for any domain with our free SOA Checker tool.
Hosted with Genuine Sites
Because we use popular shared providers, the sites sharing your IP are far more likely to be genuine. We limit how many of our sites go on each server, and always deploy to the server with the fewest of ours, so the other 250–1,500+ sites on each IP belong to the provider’s regular customers.
You don’t get that from a host running its own servers on Amazon, DigitalOcean, Vultr or Linode, where the dedicated IPs are used only by its own customers, putting your site in a “bad neighborhood”.
