Changing servers

[bbqguy]

Hello I am new here but have a real tech question we have two servers one new and one old. The old runs my database and two sites. the old is really starting to run slow but I am scared to change because I do not want to lose my current rankings. I have to change my ip's to go to new server does this really effect rankings by changing ips. please help.

[Thanol]

No it doesn't a few weeks ago I switched hosting providers. It didn't cause a single dent in my rankings or PR.

[bbqguy]

we will start to make the change next week hope your right.

[I, Brian]

Rankings are assigned on the basis of the domain name and page URLs. I've moved sites between providers more than once, and there's no observable penalty - other than the time waiting for the domain to propagate.

[pctechbytes]

No, you're cool bbqguy

There will be no effect, as I, Brian and Thanol say.

[bbqguy]

thanks for the reply. I know the google thing has messed everyone up I had the #1 ranking for charcoal grills and electric grills for 3 years on google now they are gone. We have had problems over the past month of our site pages loading a little slower than usual do you think this has also affected my rankings. I must say we panicked and reasearched and rebuilt our sites after studing the top ranked sites our charcoal grill site showed back up at The #2 slot for about 6 hours then its like google taged me again and sent me packing down to 789 I think it was. now all they have is educational, bizrate, shopping.com , news clippings, amazon, Same thing happened on the term electric grills. Thank goodness yahoo is dropping them or some of us guys would starve. Anyhow just thought I would ask the replies i received earlier helped a bunch.

[I, Brian]

The being dropped is almost certainly a consequence of the recent changes in how Google returns results for a range of search terms. Most people have been hit to some degree or other.