Will Moving to a Different Country Hosting Affect my SEO?

[jombay]

Hello Mozzers,

I have a website with the country specific TLD. It's very new (less than a month old) and already started ranking for the main target term (It's #5 as I write this). It's a somewhat exact match domain.

Right now I am on shared hosting and the way in which the site is growing, I think I might need to move to a VPS soon. Right now, I pay extra and chose a shared hosting in my own country. But VPS in my country is very costly. I'd get twice the features if I go with a US hosting provider for the same price.

If I move to a new VPS outside of my country, would it affect my rankings? What do you think?

Thanks.

[irvingw]

If the server performance is better and you page speed load times improve then it will help your SEO.

Google no longer requires you to have your site hosted in the same country as your target region.