Can moving my website to "the cloud" harm my listings?

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Michael S from Dornbirn, Austria asks:

"Can moving my website to "the cloud" harm my listings? Say my server's in Germany and I move the website to Google's App Engine or Amazon S3. Does this harm my listings for German results - or is it enough to set the "geographic target" in GWT to Germany?"



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