How can you tell who hosts a site? [Archive]

Sain Cai

October 18th, 2007, 19:23

I am dying to know who hosts such sites like pogo.com or maybe mlb.com....assuming they dont have their own servers.

How can you tell what hosting company hosts a website?

stuffradio

October 18th, 2007, 19:37

Maybe look in their About Us or something?

Ben

October 18th, 2007, 20:32

whois the site, and check the nameservers?

notnamed

October 18th, 2007, 20:58

ARIN whois the IP.

http://www.arin.net/index.shtml

Johnson

October 18th, 2007, 21:20

You can use my site www.greatdb.com

Mods, this isn't spam.

stuffradio

October 19th, 2007, 03:13

Sure it is...

you're suggesting your own service :)

Mods, this comment isn't spam.

andyf

October 19th, 2007, 04:59

Well, whoishostingthis.com will help you for knowing host of that particular site.

notnamed

October 19th, 2007, 10:24

Just in case Johnson's post is removed for spam, www.greatdb.com is actually really useful.

andyf, that site is really interesting. It was fairly accurate about my VPS host, and got my ISP when I put in the domain of my home server.

LeX

October 19th, 2007, 10:32

Just in case Johnson's post is removed for spam, www.greatdb.com is actually really useful.

Yeah, when it's not down.

Johnson

October 19th, 2007, 16:50

Down? What down what what?

sellwhm

October 19th, 2007, 19:34

I just use a netcraft toolbar.

sep

October 20th, 2007, 18:48

Ask the site owners ;)

serverorigin

October 20th, 2007, 21:45

I just use a netcraft toolbar.

Same here. It is the simplest if you are someone like me who considers every site I see...I am always thinking....where is this server, seems fast! :P

ganesh.rao

October 21st, 2007, 01:07

Whois on domain and then on the IP.

Decker

October 21st, 2007, 06:21

Yeah, when it's not down.

Come on explain - I have my reasons for asking :angel:

stonerocket

October 24th, 2007, 14:58

Who Is Hosting This is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you’ll get a link to the company that’s hosting this particular domain.

http://whoishostingthis.com/

The domain
FreeWebspace.net - The largest guide to free webhosting.
is hosted by:
The Planet.com Internet Services, Inc.

mess451

October 24th, 2007, 23:38

They seems great in your eyes, maybe simper for them

[DWH]Yuxuan

October 25th, 2007, 22:20

SR, that's a really useful tool.. Thank you.

gentle

October 28th, 2007, 00:15

whois.domaintools.com has some detailed info per domain name you lookup. You can see how many other sites are hosted on the server you're one.

Meksilon

October 29th, 2007, 08:17

Just in case Johnson's post is removed for spam, www.greatdb.com is actually really useful.Um no it isn't:

This tool does not currently support Internet Explorer as this browser isn't standard compliant.

Please use a better browser such as FireFox, Safari, or Opera. All are freely available for Windows and Mac.

Who the hell tells me what browser to use while viewing their website??? Fascists!

Ben

October 29th, 2007, 12:29

Um no it isn't:

This tool does not currently support Internet Explorer as this browser isn't standard compliant.

Please use a better browser such as FireFox, Safari, or Opera. All are freely available for Windows and Mac.

Who the hell tells me what browser to use while viewing their website??? Fascists!
Johnson does.

He also enforces his political party's views with violence.

Down with the white man!

JonnyH

October 29th, 2007, 12:33

http://whoishostingthis.com/

The domain
FreeWebspace.net - The largest guide to free webhosting.
is hosted by:
The Planet.com Internet Services, Inc.
Quite cool site, it got mine perfectly.

Meksilon

October 29th, 2007, 23:35

Yeah, but kind of useless really. http://whois.webhosting.info gives the same info with the rest of the whois information.

tandoc

October 29th, 2007, 23:41

OH MY GOD IT'S MEKSILON.

(anti caps, damn you!)

themoose

October 30th, 2007, 11:57