What if Using ASP Necessitates the Changing of your IP

Does this affect your PR or SE Results?

[Midwesterner]

I am having a special program written that my programmer decided to do using ASP.

This program will allow customers to upload graphics to have custom posters made and see them changing as they select framing and matting.

After several months I'm told by my programmer that that I must have ASP added to my site at my web hosting company.

This is to accomodate AspJpeg and aspupload.

My webhost tells me that I must be moved to another server and that my IP address will change. Can anyone tell me what the downside of this will be?

Will I lose PR or search engine result postitions.

Will I need to use a redirect of some sort.

What if anything should I be worried about here?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[duckhunter]

Plenty of threads on the topic

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[txbakers]

I hate to say this after the fact, but the programmer should have asked about which technology your current host has.

Pretty much anything you can do in ASP can be done in JSP or PHP. it's just a matter of finding the right syntax.

Changing an IP address is serious business. SEs don't care whether you are on ASP or PHP or .DO or whatever, but the DNS needed to find your domain name and match it with the IP can take a few days to work itself out.

if you can make your changes without having to change your IP, do it.

Think of your IP as your physical address. If you had to move your home, how disruptive is that to your life?