Rise Local’s hosting infrastructure is called Zonedock
We built Zonedock for one reason, To get your website ranked! Hosting performance makes a difference. You see, a few key players make up the bulk of the web hosting market, we affectionally refer to this evil empire as Big Host. Not because we don’t want to name names. We just don’t want to get sued but we know their dirty secrets, ask us!

Web hosting is another form of real estate, more specifically domain real estate. Anyone that knows real estate knows what one of the things that matter most of all is your LOCATION. The same goes for website hosting. If your site is hosted far from your users it will load slower than if it is localized to the audience. That is pure science.

Considerations for the Best SEO Website Hosting
When it comes to your website hosting you need someone who specializes in building sites the way your website is built. Most reputable hosts today offer their own drag-and-drop content creation tools. That means WordPress CMS, then you are going to want a Managed WordPress hosting provider who is up to date on the latest visual builder tools and frameworks, maybe some child theme development skills too?

Other Host Provider Considerations
Do they offer site transfer and new site setup? What about:

WordPress pre-installed with NGINX and PHP 7
cPanel support
stage environment deployment
domain email administration
SSL certificates
Good, reliable web hosting is one of those things that runs in the background without you ever having to think about it. That, in essence, is an SEO-friendly web host.