Any Bad Effects of Switching Servers?

I have a website hosted with a certain hosting provider that provides very limited use of the server. I've had the site a long time now, and as my knowledge of websites and hosting has grown over the years, I've realized that the server it is on now is not a very good choice. I cannot use server-side languages, have very limited storage space, and many issues have come up because of this limited use of the server.

I now have two of my own servers with various sites on them. I'd like to move this first site to one of those servers so I can begin to fix things up.

I just wanted to make sure there would not be any bad effects of switching to one of my own servers. The first site is the driving force of most of my traffic for one of my e-commerce sites, and the traffic is extremely valuable to me. I do not want rankings to drop (or my listings to disappear from Google altogether) or anything like that.

Is there anything I need to worry about by switching servers? Will my site still continue to get all the traffic it has been getting over the years (granted the site is up and running properly on the new server)?

I will be switching both the domain name host and the server the site is hosted on. The domain name will remain the same.

Hi, If you first make a copy of your website onto the new server including database. Then once you are sure its connected correctly switch the nameserver/ DNS settings this will ensure no page ranking or disruption to your users.
For a very small amount of time you may find that you have users visitng either site just while the DNS settings are changed.

But after a day it would be safe to say that all the traffic will be hitting your new server. At which point you can ensure there is no data on one server which is not on another and visa versa, this should allow for a safe transfer.

There should not be any issues on changing servers unless you're putting the site into a "bad network". I don't believe that anything like that will happen as you've said that you've got other sites running there as well. The only concern that you might want to think about is the geographic location of the servers. Mainly that if your main target market is in the US it's sometimes better to host physically in the US. This is only a very small factor, so it's not going to make-or-break you, but is something small to consider.

Alright - just making sure. I really want to switch from the old host as it's too expensive for what is provided. It's just that is where all my traffic is so I want to be sure I keep that traffic once I switch to the new server with another web host.

I understand there may be a couple day propagation delay when changing the name servers, so users may bounce back and forth between servers. I just wasn't sure how switching servers affects any rankings.

On a similar note, the old host (who I am switching from) supposedly submits to search engines and things like that. Will I need to continue this activity on my own? How important is it once good rankings are received (I'm usually in the top 4 on Google for my niche, with similar results on yahoo / msn)?

if you first upload and connect all over IP number on new server and after that you change server names you can not have any bad effects at all

Hi all,

During the time of changing the name server there will be little bit disturbances. let say it requires 4 days. During these 4 days if crawler is crawling your site and gets nothing or find the site is not live then you may have problem.