The free Hosting Checker shows who hosts a website. Enter a domain and the tool identifies its hosting provider, the registrar the domain was registered through, the IP address it resolves to, and the approximate server location. The data comes live from WHOIS and IP lookups. It is a quick way to research where and how a site is hosted. It is free and needs no account.
Knowing a site's host is useful for a few reasons: comparing hosting providers, researching a competitor's setup, or simply confirming your own hosting details. The tool pulls the registrar from the domain's registration and the hosting network from the IP the domain resolves to.
How to Check Hosting
- Enter a domain. Type the website address you want to check.
- Check. The tool looks up the domain's registration and IP data.
- Read the results. See the hosting provider, registrar, IP address, and server location.
A Note on CDNs
As with any tool that identifies hosting from an IP address, there is an important caveat. Many websites sit behind a content delivery network such as Cloudflare, which sits between visitors and the real server. When that is the case, the tool will show the CDN as the network the site is served from, rather than the underlying origin host, because that is genuinely where the domain points. This is normal for a large share of modern websites. So read the result as where the domain is currently served from, which for a CDN-fronted site is the CDN, not necessarily the company's own hosting account. The server location shown is approximate, at the city or region level.
When to Check Hosting
- Researching a site. See which provider hosts a website you are looking into.
- Comparing hosts. Find out where well-performing sites are hosted.
- Confirming your own setup. Verify your hosting provider and server location.
- Basic due diligence. Check the hosting behind a site before dealing with it.
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