Does Changing Hosting Provider Affect SEO?
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I am having a site with more than 1,500 visits per day and I have suffered from two "blackouts" of one day each with my actual hosting Provider.
I would like to change the Hosting Provider, but I am afraid of losing lots of visitors if I do the change.
The change will be to a dedicated IP and the location of the IP will be in the same country.
Will my site be affected on SEO results as a consecuence of this change?
Thanks and regards
Maria
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I can only tell you about our experience...we had the same server (in house) for probably 5-6 years, then we moved in January to an off-site host. I paid close attention to the rankings because I was actually wanting to see an increase because the new server provided faster load times. With the exception of normal fluctuations, we saw no change in rankings from the switch.
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