Penalties Because of Hosting Company (also an adult host)?

Can who you host with on a shared server cause problems with rankings?

[mboydnv]

Ok, here goes...

My domain is over 2 years old and I cannot penetrate (I said penatrate) G and Y. I once got as High as #59 then disappeared. For the sake of writing, site is optimized, deccent backlinks, no spam, fresh content, interlinked etc etc etc.

My question is this...

Can the company that I host with be affecting my rankings?

They host porn also. The server I've been on has been DOS attacked twice. I saw my website spidered by G without the proper domain but as the domain of the server... dns44.<example>.com/

The company is <edited>

Can some site on the shared server cause a blanket ban of C blocks by the Se's? I have a static IP, but maybe someone with a similar IP ( last two numbers being different etc) may be causing a ban somehow? And I got caught in it?

Or if not a ban, but a triggering of a filter punishing us all?

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[edited by: tedster at 4:03 pm (utc) on July 22, 2006]