Help! A never before asked query about using a ccTLD but hosting in a different country

[seotoseo]

Hi Guys,

I've a website that has a India specific domain ending with .org.in. The website has ALL the traffic from India (as mentioned earlier, it's a website meant only for audience from India). Currently this _.org.in_domainis hosted on a server located in India. I'm thinking of hosting this website in Singapore. Do you think that will negatively affect the current rankings of the website (i.e. changing the server location of my website from India to Singapore)?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

No, I doubt that changing servers itself will have such an impact. You should be worried though that a move between servers won't cause any downtime or other issues when making the move. Things that could go wrong during a move could cause a drop in rankings.

[seotoseo]

Thanks Martijn. I was not referring to the changing the servers but changing the physical location of servers (from India to Singapore). What do you think about that.

Martijn, typically I try to keep a downtime of less than 5 minutes when I move the servers. So , that part is covered.

Many thanks for your response.

[NakulGoyal]

Is there a reason to host it in Singapore vs India ? Are you having any performance or site speed issues on this server currently ?

[seotoseo]

There isn't any decent and affordable Managed VPS hosting provider with datacenter in India. Ones that I've tried are not that great (performance wise). I've a couple of websites hosted with some Singapore DCs and they are pretty good. So, was thinking if I should move this .org.in site also to Singapore.

Having said that, another option I've is increasing the budget and buying VPS from a hosting provider that has DC in India and provide great performance and support (I've tried them earlier). But before doing that, I wanted to check the first option - moving the site to SGPR DC only if there aren't any downsides to it.

[seotoseo]

Hey Guys.. Do help me out..

[gfiorelli1]

Since when Cloud Hosting has become popular, Google downgraded the importance of server location as a factor in International SEO.

So if you want to use a server in another country, and the hosting service is good (for all the things told by others here about latency, especially), than you should not have too many problems.