How to Find Out the Hosting Company of a Website

Having problems with a hosting provider can mean bad response times, terrible technical service, limited bandwidth and thus, various inconveniences that you go through when you live on the Internet.

That is why you start investigating, visiting blogs that have better performance and you consider changing the hosting company you have contracted.

Now a new question arises **How ​​can I know where a certain web page is hosted? **From the beginning it seems somewhat difficult to answer, but I assure you that it is simpler than it seems.

Thanks to the Internet and the many free tools it has, it is possible to find out, in a more or less simple way, the hosting provider for a website to make the change.

I’ll show you a tool that I used to use when a company made me go through these problems. We will see some special cases, in which it does not show a name directly and what you should do if it appears.

Tool to know the hosting of a web page

Who is hosting is one of the first websites that offered data about the hosting of other pages. The results it provides are so good that even other tools have been born thanks to it.

It has one of the best repositories, for the simple fact that its databases are large and provide extra information if the hosting company is not in them.

For testing, I will be using this website survival-ecuador.com. It is a page that is hosted on miHosting and with which we can verify that the tool in question works perfectly.

##Who is hosting this

As I mentioned before, it is almost a reference on the internet and you can access it by click here. It has been providing the service of displaying data from pages and their hostings for many years, so the database is gigantic.

The interface is friendly and intuitive, it gives us a search bar on which you only have to write the address of the page you want to examine. In my case I will place www.survival-ecuador.com.

In the results, it shows the name of the hosting provider (what we are looking for), the IP address, the Whois (which if we click shows specific details about the management of the domain and so on) and the DNS of the servers where the website is hosted.

Alternative to Who is hosting this

If you need a second opinion regarding Who is hosting or just want to know about another site that does the same thing, then I can recommend a Hostadvice tool, which you can access by click here.

It has a beautiful and intuitive interface, similar to that of Who is hosting. If we try entering www.survival-ecuador.com we obtain very good information such as: the name of the provider, the IP of the site, the number of sites hosted on the IP, the whois information, the DNS and a direct link to the hosting company’s page.

Difference between hosting company and data center

This is an issue that must be taken into account. All of these websites offer clues about where our website is hosted, but they could also create some confusion, indicating that your website is hosted in a company rather than in a data center.  For this reason, it is important to **look at the DNS of your domain.****The DNS usually point to the company that actually sells you the hosting service. **

Consulting the PTR

The PTR is a record attached to an IP address. And it is always a name, specifically the name of the server that hosts your website. You can check the ptr of your domain’s IP here:  https://mxtoolbox.com/ReverseLookup.aspx

Nothing, I can’t find my hosting company!!!

In that case, **write to us at **ayuda@mihosting.com and we will try to find out which company is right for you. Our technicians have a lot of experience and will shortly tell you where your domain is hosted. **