SEO Benefit to Hosting Site on a Dedicated Server?

[Kingalan1]

Our annual hosting plan expires soon. Our website is hosted on a shared server.

Is there an SEO benefit to hosting our site on a dedicated server. Could this result in faster download times which is a ranking factor?

Our traffic is currently low (only about 20 visits per day).

Thanks!!
Alan

[ThomasHarvey]

You're not going to get a massive benefit from a dedicated server on a low amount of visitors. You'll get a bigger benefit for speed by making sure you've got caching/images optimised and lazy loaded + using a CDN for assets. Have a look at Cloudflare and their free plan.

[JohnSammon]

Hey Alan,

We work with WordPress sites. We moved a few sites from Bluehost (shared plan) to Siteground (shared plan) and saw increases in site load time as a result. This did result in positive SEO metrics. You'll want to review your site in either the Google Sitespeed test or Tools.pingdom.com to continue to troubleshoot speed issues (if they appear)

[seoman10]

It won't have any direct impact.

The only thing you may gain is a speed improvement which is an SEO benefit.

If you are only getting 20 visitors a day you are going to struggle to fund a dedicated server worth having. You can get cheap ones, but you only get what you pay for.

If it was me I would go with some good quality hosting and spend your time and money on optimising. As the website grows you can look to moving to something more beefy.