Will changing my host affect my rankings

[acs111]

Were moving our site from a UK server to an Australian server to benefit from hosting our site in our home country.

The domain name is the same, the template and files are all the same so will we lose rankings at all when the website is moved?

I plan on leaving the old website up there until the new website is cached.

What considerations should we think of before we migrate?

Cheers

[Francisco_Meza]

I just changed host last week and there was NO loss of rankings.

[acs111]

Great news. Did you have to do any 301 redirects? I'm presuming as long as I keep the file structures the same this is not necessary.

[zigojacko]

If all the URL's for your pages remain the same, there is no requirement for 301 redirects at all no.

[cygnismedia]

If you targeting Australia then it will be useful for you otherwise no bad effect

[Francisco_Meza]

Nope, no redirects. I just kept all the file structures the same. I did keep my current 301s though.

[imsameer]

Let me be the odd one out, you may loose your ranking on google.co.uk and gain positive effect on google.com.au {Keeping in mind everything remains constant except the hosting and ip address}