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Web Toolkit: Find out who else is on your web host with MyIPNeighbors
If you have a web site, you're probably using shared hosting. Shared hosting, for those unfamiliar with it, is when a company takes a single web server and hosts many web sites on it, sharing the web serving duties and making it possible for the company to make a profit while offering us $3.99/month hosting plans. While it may be economical, sometimes shared hosting means your site is slow depending on whom you're sharing your site with. For example, if someone has a blog that is hosted on the same server your domain is hosted on and they have a really popular post (perhaps getting on Digg), the server will become slow under the heavy load. This heavy load can bog down the server and make it slow, sometimes unresponsive for everyone else being hosted on that server.
Enter myIPneighbors.com. By giving them a website's address or IP address, they report back with how many other websites are being hosted on the same server as yours. For example, my site is sharing it's web server with 191 sites. Yikes, that's a lot!
If you're having performance issues with your web site and you feel the server might be to blame, check out myIPneighbors and assess for yourself if you web host is spreading it's resources too thin. Depending on your analysis, a web host change might be in your future!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FrankieV said 11:30AM on 2-03-2008
Just one quick comment on this issue is that this website you mention myIPneighbors.com does not tell you how many domains on a server. It however does tell you how many domains on an actual IP address. The reason I say this is that I work for a hosting company and if your hosting company gives you a dedicated IP address for your domain it will only come back with one domain on IP. This would be true but don't assume that you have a dedicated server because you have a dedicated IP for your domain. A hosting company could have several domains hosted on one server with dedicated IPs for the domains on that server. Example my domain http://nerdscafe.net has a dedicated IP and when placed in the http://myIPneighbors.com search it only pulls one domain on that IP. I know that there is more domains hosted on that server. So this search is good for domains with shared IPs not really as to telling you how many domains are on a server.
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Sam said 11:54AM on 2-03-2008
the image link goes to www.myipneighbor.com instead of www.myipneighbor*s*.com.
I agree with the above post, this is only useful to people on shared ip hosting. the server that hosts my site, has many many other users, but this tool only shows my domains.
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graham Barnes said 11:51AM on 2-05-2008
Anyone tried putting in google.com yet, you will find something quite interesting.
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