Does moving hosting affect local rankings?

[youngmike]

I need to move hosting for one of my clients. The website was built on shared hosting, so we do not have direct access to things. Has anyone had an experience with moving hosting and it negatively affecting local map pack rankings?

 

[fisicx]

The website was built on shared hosting, so we do not have direct access to things. Has anyone had an experience with moving hosting and it negatively affecting local map pack rankings?

Not sure why shared hosting should affect your access to the site and cpanel but no, moving to a new host shouldn't affect ranking.

Caveat: unless the new host is in a different country, cloudy, uses a CDN or performance is downgraded. All of which can make things worse.

 

[Conor Treacy]

As @fisicx mentioned, check the infrastructure.

I can tell you without a doubt that moving a client from GoDaddy to SiteGround makes a huge impact in performance and speed and that just doing the move has affected organic rankings. I haven't seen it affect local rankings as such.

The infrastructure of the host and the location makes big differences.

As far as access on a shared host, as long as I have shell and a current version of PHP and MySQL (we work on WordPress sites only), then I have everything I need. But if you need Ruby, solid Node.js, and other languages, I can see the need to move. Also if you need direct access to log files (access logs) then a VPS is definitley the way to go.

Before doing anything, upload a 1MB, 5MB 10MB and 100MB file and then check the download speeds. Don't just trust the host's word on speed. Then test I/O on database etc.

But I've not seen anything either positive or negative when it comes to local pack rankings.