Server down, will it cause rankings?

I wonder how long does the server have to be down to cause SERP drops in google? Here is the letter from server support: "This server that your website is hosted on has experienced an unexpected reboot. Initial investigations show this may be in relation to a RAID drive that is requiring a rebuild/resync.
We are investigating this matter now and working to ensure that this server returns to full service as quickly as possible. Our initial report shows that this should be within 30-45 minutes given the swap of the RAID drive that is required."

It's been down for 2 hours already

 

One of my websites were down for a while because of hosting account renewal so after showing the error page for almost a 1-days it has been spidered by Google and indexed with the new empty page content until the re indexing it was ranking the same in the search results so you don't have to worry about a couple of hours.

 

The problem is fixed, the site is on again. Thank you iemailer for sharing your experience

 

your ranking will be effect if the search engine bots visits your web pages for that down time

 

To what extent then, say if bot soon found out the page is back, will the ranking still be affected?

 

The same thing happenned to me but the error page cached and the site dropped like a tank.

 

It all depends. If your server is down for extended periods of time, then it could certainly effect your rankings.

 

If your server down 2 - 3 days probably it will effect you rankung if only a couple hours not

 

You are welcome,

Once the bot revisit your site when it's back with the content and index it again you will get you old ranking.

The problem is when the bot visit your website and it's down with an empty error page, maybe forwarded to the hosting server error page and index it, Then the Google bot can't find a valid robots file in your website and start to remove you from there search index witch will case the drop in ranking as well as your page is not fulled of content that your created and optimized your website for.

 

It was only down for a few hour so you don't have anything to worry about

 

bot doesnt index every second in fact bot would often re-visit in 1 day or so.

 

Yeah, one of my servers was down for a couple of days recently and now the site's rankings have all but disappeared. I hope they start to pick up soon but it is really frustrating.

 

I believe its a matter of how much trust the sies has. I've seen sites that have been down a couple of weeks still hold their rankings.

 

I think google will notice that your site is down when they'll visit you. But I think that the SERP's will only be affected if this situation keeps happening over several weeks.