Is a rootserver that has previously been used for porn and spam a problem for SEO?

[RWW]

As we found out via Alexa we are hosting our website on a server that has been used under the same IP heavily mostly for pornsites.

Will this become a problem for our webproject?

By the way: We are not in the porn-sector.

We are an NGO with an alternative social media project for a better world.

Thanks for your help.

[drones]

Hi,

Check link and expecially anchor of your url with open site explorer or majestic if your website url have link in porn website or bad anchor the answer is yes.

Spam and bad referral can affect google ranking.

I hope i ve been useful.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Like Drones already mentioned, I would try to figure out what search engines could potentially still know about the history of your site. So make sure to check through all the available tools: Google Search Console (if you already own the domain), Majestic SEO, Open Site Explorer and Ahrefs what kind of domains are linking to your site and what type of links they are. Relevant or non relevant. If the majority of them is it probably will harm you in this case as you have too many non relevant links pointing to your site. If you barely can't find anything about it, I wouldn't worry too much about it.