That is a question, I am sure, many of us would have asked at one point or the other. Whether it is to appreciate the stability and reliability of a website or to complain about a domain owner who is scraping your content, one would have asked this question – “Who is Hosting that Website?”
Easiest way to find out who hosts a website
Who is Hosting This? is a very simple web service whose sole purpose is to tell you the company that is hosting a website. You just type in the URL of the site you are curious about, and press ENTER – you will get the answer. Simple and cool web-tool!
According to the site, they answer accurately over 98% of the time. I tested for around 15 websites for which i know the web hosts and except for TechPP rest of the results were accurate!
Easy but not so accurate way of knowing the host of a website
Who-Hosts.com is an online tool similar to WhoIsHostingThis.com but with lesser accurate results. You can consider to use this in case WhoIsHostingThis is down or not accessible.
Tough but accurate way of finding the Host of a website
Go to any website which offers Free WhoIs Search of a domain. For Example, DomanTools. Enter the URL of the website and click on lookup.
It will give all the details w.r.t the domain. but look for the details specific to the webserver’s IP address (as shown below)
Click on “whois” hyperlink, which will fetch the whois record for the IP address.
This shows the Original Webhost. Yup!! TechPP is hosted on Knownhost VPS!
Of-course I suggest you to follow the third way only if the first 2 doesn’t work for some reasons. Do you know any better way? Let me know in your comments!
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
Thanks for the kind words about WhoIsHostingThis.com If you’d let me know the correct host for techpp.com, I’ll investigate and update your site’s record.
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“Whois Hosting This” is the tool that helped me many times. DomianTools is nice alternative too, although it is even better if you want more detailed results.
I’ll try Who-Hosts.com to see how good it is, I have never heard of it before.
Thanks!
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Love the list
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i prefer to use domaintools for any of research i need.
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fantastic list my friend. pretty helpful especially at work. great job!
Great you see you back Techniqueal
Whois is a great resource, thanks for sharing.
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http://www.who.is is great resource