Does Changing Hosting Provider Affect SEO?

[goperformancelabs]

I am having a site with more than 1,500 visits per day and I have suffered from two "blackouts" of one day each with my actual hosting Provider.

I would like to change the Hosting Provider, but I am afraid of losing lots of visitors if I do the change.

The change will be to a dedicated IP and the location of the IP will be in the same country.

Will my site be affected on SEO results as a consecuence of this change?

Thanks and regards

Maria

[jgower]

I can only tell you about our experience...we had the same server (in house) for probably 5-6 years, then we moved in January to an off-site host.  I paid close attention to the rankings because I was actually wanting to see an increase because the new server provided faster load times.  With the exception of normal fluctuations, we saw no change in rankings from the switch.