How to find out who hosts a web site (web hosting company)

Posted on November 29, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Here’s a quick little tip for anyone looking for a simple way to find out who is hosting a particular website. Trying to figure out who hosts a web site can be an annoying task if you’re trying to go through the usual channels by searching the WHOIS database, etc. A lot of times you’ll only get the company that registered the domain name, but not the actual hosting company.

Who is Hosting This? is a very simple web service whose sole purpose is to tell you the company that is hosting a website. I really like this because most of the other online web site checking tools simply do not give a clear and concise answer to this very simple question.

who hosts a website

I came across this website because I’m looking for better hosting, but I wanted to know what hosting companies very large sites in my field were using, such as LifeHacker.com, ReadWriteWeb, HowToGeek, etc. I know those sites run smoothly and have millions of visitors every month, so if there hosting can handle that traffic, I would be more inclined to go with one of those hosting companies.

Once you type in a domain name, for example, online-tech-tips.com, you’ll get your answer right away:

hosting website

And the answer was BlueHost, which is absolutely correct! My web hosting company is BlueHost. I’ve tried it on a good number of sites and the results have been correct each time. Only gigantic sites like Google.com, etc will not give you any useful information because they have their own IP address ranges and use their own servers. You’ll also see this for other companies like CNET, etc because they manage all of their own hosting.

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So next time you want to find out who hosts a website, make sure to check out this nifty little tool! Enjoy!

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8 Responses to “How to find out who hosts a web site (web hosting company)”

  1. ram said on : November 30th, 2007 at 7:47 am

    it is useful just you want to know who is hosting the website. I use whois.domaintools.com for this, it also gives whois info, title relevancy, SEO score etc, which is also useful sometime.


  2. ram said on : November 30th, 2007 at 7:52 am

    where is comment gone :cry:


  3. Shashank said on : November 30th, 2007 at 10:02 am

    That is a great tool but the best way to check out more is go to dnsstuff.com they have a wide range/variety of tools to choose from .


  4. Madhur Kapoor said on : November 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Earlier i used whois.sc but this is much better and easier to use.


  5. akishore said on : November 30th, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Ram & Shashank - Those are great tools also. I was looking for something that just gave me the hosting info as I am planning to shift hosts possibly.

    Madhur - I definitely agree with you, this is better than whois.sc for looking up who hosts a website


  6. Vijay said on : December 1st, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    DNSstuff is a paid service but it works excellently.. I use Whois.sc for most of my Whois needs!


  7. Vijay said on : December 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    Forgot to add this:

    The service Who is hosting this gives the name of the data center of the host only and not the exact hosts name.


  8. Sue said on : January 14th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    website left half done now i have to recreate it and am just a newbie at this need to find out who is hosting it.

    Thanks


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