Host service moving to new site

IP's will be changing ... what is the impact?

[mayor]

My site's host service company is merging with another and preparing to move my site to new servers in a different city.

Talking to them, they said my IP address will change in the process.

Can anyone tell me if there are pitfalls I should be looking out for as this transition proceeds.

For instance, will it affect any of my search engine rankings?

[Slade]

I moved a PR 6 site from one ISP to another just recently. I have not noticed any adverse affects. Googlebot still comes almost daily to check out stuff...

edit: That Preview button is in the wrong place... Every time I go to submit, I hit it first...

[Woz]

I upgraded service for one site some time ago which entailed changing IP even though I stayed with the same host. No problems whatsoever. No interuption in either visitors or spiders.

Onya
Woz

[Brett_Tabke]

I have found that changing ip's will have little effect. Sometimes it will trigger a full crawl of the site.

[Tammy]

There shouldn't be any pitfall since you're ranked as domain address, not IP.
So far from my experiences, that is not a problem. However, please come back and let us know the result. :D