Why is hosting good for SEO?

[moon-boots]

I've heard a few people mention this now. I have seen hosting packages range from £5 to £1000 per month, and I understand that each comes with their own amounts of storage space, bandwidth and all. Now I understand that page speed is important to SEO and the type of hosting will dictate your page speed, but other than this why is hosting important to SEO?

[ChrisAshton]

£1000 /month for hosting? o.O

I can't say I've ever seen this before! Perhaps that's for massive traffic volumes like you'd expect to see for Reddit.com? It would make sense in the scenario to cope with the sheer volume of simultaneous sessions and interaction as well as risks like DDOS but for the average website I can't imagine there'd be any benefit beyond finding a host with a server that's fast, reliable and preferably in the same region as your target market.

The server location isn't as important as people think but it does have some influence so if you're in the market for a server change you might as well, just don't go changing for this alone.

[slatronica]

Page speed is the obvious one which can certainly be impacted by poor hosting selection. Specfically server response time when viewing page speed insights within GA are impacted by your hosting setup.

Beyond page speed reliability is a factor as well. You may have great average server response times and page load speeds but if you see frequent outages or slow-down periods it may have an impact on your traffic.

It's also good to understand and choose the right type of hosting. Do you need a DIY hosting package where you are expected to maintain things or are you looking for something managed. Managed hosting can help lessen the stress of hosting depending on your business needs.