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Web toolkit: find out a site's web host with WhoIsHostingThis
For bloggers or anyone who wants their own website, a natural question always is - who should I choose for a web host? There are many guides and ways to get advice on this subject. But the fact is that choosing the cheapest isn't always the best. If you know someone who has a site and you're impressed with the speed and uptime of that site, it might be beneficial to know who their web host is.
Finding out is easy with a great website called WhoIsHostingThis. When you visit the site, there's a simple box where you type the name of any site, hit "Tell Me", and the web host is revealed. Very cool.
We appreciate that WhoIsHostingThis doesn't require registration. Additionally, there's no annoying Flash ads (yet) or any other factors that drive us nuts when browsing the web.
This is a very practical website to add to your web toolbox.
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Eddiettr said 3:16PM on 2-02-2008
Anyone know how to make this recognise your own server? I host my site from home on Server 2003's IIS6 and WhoIsHostingThis just times out on it. I'm guessing if it ever loaded it would just give my ISP's name?
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dmcox said 4:48PM on 2-02-2008
Very interesting, whoishostingthis shows two different hosting companies for sites that I am managing, that I know are hosted by another company. But on closer examination it appears they are just shell companies.
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Davide said 6:54PM on 2-02-2008
There's another similar service: http://www.whoIsTheOwner.net which permits to discover who is the owner and the hosting service of any domain by querying more than 350 whois servers in the world
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jd said 5:25PM on 2-04-2008
Nice tool, please don't see my info at http://www.bananatools.com/ ...lol
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