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Hello friends,

if i change my site hosting server linux to windows. i face any PR changes in future? help me

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Short answer: No, changing from Linux to Windows will not change PageRank by itself. PR is driven by links; the hosting OS does not affect that, as noted. What can change is how Google crawls your site during the move. Keep URLs identical and returning 200 OK. If any URL must change (extensions, paths, or host), use permanent 301 redirects so link equity is passed on .

Practical pitfalls when switching stacks, echoing : do not rename or remove pages that have inbound links. Watch casing: Linux is case-sensitive, Windows is not, but search engines treat different casing as different URLs; keep everything lower-case and consistent SEO Starter Guide. Preserve robots.txt, canonical tags, and your www vs non-www redirect. Migrate rewrite rules (Apache mod_rewrite to IIS URL Rewrite). After launch, submit an updated XML sitemap and monitor indexing in Search Console; this is the recommended flow for a server move without URL changes .

Sample 301s you can adapt:

Apache (.htaccess):

Redirect 301 /about.php https://www.example.com/about.aspx

IIS (web.config, inside <rewrite><rules>):

<rule name="AboutRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="about.php" />
  <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/about.aspx" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

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No. PR is not affected by hosting. It is only affected by links.

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ok thank you. friend

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While you change hosting just make sure that all link pages are there and don't change page name if the web page has some PR.

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