Will changing hosting companies affect my SE position? I'm currently hosting my website at one place, but they dont allocate enough bandwidth for me in my monthly plan and I don't want to keep having to pay $10 - $15 a month for extra bandwidth. That's more than what my hosting plan costs per month. So I was thinking of switching hosting companies for my site, but am wondering if it will affect my rankings as I'd probably be on a new IP and what not. Any insites on this?
If you make a quick change over, it is unlikely to make much difference (maybe a place or three) but if something goes wrong and your site is down for more than a week then it will adversely affect your rankings proportionate to however long your site remains down.
I understand that if it's down for a long period of time what may happen. I plan on keeping the current hosting for another wesite and gt the other hosting for the one using up all the traffic. So there shouldn't be any down time there.