Changing Host

Would I be penalized?

[angiolo]

I am going to change hosting for one of our sites. Actually the site is hosted in an Italian host.

The new hosting is in USA.

Could I risk to be penalized by search engines for changing hosting?

What is the best procedure to change hosting?

[Alternative Future]

Hi angiolo,

I am about to do the same thing, from what I can gather from my questions regarding this:
1) Change hosts and site as normal
2) Leave a copy of your site on the old host for at least a week to make sure the SE's have all updated their records of your new IP.

-george

[lgn1]

I heard that you should leave the old site up for at least a month, as Google sometimes takes this long to update its internal DNS entries.

This was a couple of years ago, so im not sure if Google has improved time wise on this.

[jorj]

move the files on the new server and let all the old ones with a 301 redirect in place so G will find them as redirected instead as duplicate content

[Alternative Future]

>>so G will find them as redirected instead as duplicate content

There should be no problem with duplicate content because the domain name is the same, so googlebot and others only see it as one site.

-george