What will happen if I switch the hosting company every 5 months?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Nishant Singh: Nope
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  Jim Munro: If you load the new server before switching the DNS from the old one then it should be a seamless change-over.
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  Frank Geric: Why would you do that?
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  మీ నరేష్ దేవినేని: Frank Geric I am a WordPress expert. I want to spend good amount of time on a particular host and write reviews about them. Good reviews, not just because they pay good affiliate commission.
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  Chris Khoo: మీ నరేష్ దేవినేని It`s better to have the reviews on your brand website and have 1 test site for 5 months. That way the budget is 1 extra hosting. The best is to test multiple hosting at the same time with the same variables.
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  Doug Betensky: If you mess up the migration and don’t catch on quickly enough you could lose a ton of website traffic. But you said you were an expert so I’m not terribly worried.
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  మీ నరేష్ దేవినేని: Hi Doug Betensky , I can transfer the site with no problems and changes, but I am curious what kind of mess up are you talking about?
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  Frank Geric: Doug Betensky if the site is unavailable or can’t be crawled you’ll be dinged for that.
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  Doug Betensky: For example if any urls change and 301 redirects are not set up or not transferred properly. I’ve also seen things like someone transfers magento site to Shopify and moves servers. Adds seo plugins that auto select redirects for you leading to a bad user experience and subsequently lower conversions. Poor html to WordPress migration leading to lots of 404s etc.
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  మీ నరేష్ దేవినేని: Doug Betensky thanks for the detailed answer Doug. I don’t have that kind of setup right now 🙂
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  Doug Betensky: 😃 thanks
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  మీ నరేష్ దేవినేని: Doug Betensky haha
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  Sam Mah: Doug Betensky, as long as you don`t rename the HTML files, then you are fine. Make sure your SSL redirects are working correctly. If this is not working correctly, you can lose traffic.
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  Michael Martinez: I don`t think there would be any long-term downside.
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  Ryan Jones: long term? no. a bunch of short term fluctuations from the constant moving? probably.
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  Frank Geric: Accounting Today’s website changes IP addresses multiple times per week. That was a nightmare in a high security environment that blocked a lot of sites. I don’t think changing servers is a big deal, but you’ve got to be on top of links and services. Outdated php server versions will kill you.
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  Richard Hearne: I`m not sure that there`s much upside top this either. If you have the free time to do it, and so long as you do it safely, then fine. But I can think of better ways to use my time.