Where is my webhosting provider ?
Identify where your hosting provider is ? A very important point to check out before choosing your hosting account. Address in contact us page is just the registered office address. What matter is the place in which your domain is placed. i.e in which server your domain related contents are stored, a server from which your contents are served from, a server which is pointed by nslookup output.
Do “nslookup yourdomain.com” in your dos prompt or shell. it will through a ip. That is the ip of your web server i.e A server which serves the content ffor your htt:///yourdomain.com/ query.
To get the visual feel of your hosting provider presence with detailed analysis on number of hop, latency use http://visualroute.visualware.com/
Investigate your domain and ipaddress using domain dossier from central ops. http://centralops.net/co/ use network who is and tracerroute.
Why should you do this ?
your hosting provider presence is your presence, that reflects the source from your content will be served. good hosting is the one which provides good coverage across the globe to serve your global clients. These checkups will avoid incidents where in a cheap, home pc acting as your hosting provider.
Sample records for hexahost.com
Network Whois record
Queried whois.arin.net with “208.43.115.238“…
OrgName: SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
OrgID: SOFTL
Address: 1950 N Stemmons Freeway
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 75207
Country: US
ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.softlayer.com:4321 Reflects the details related to the Data center
Traceroute
Tracing route to hexahost.com [208.43.115.238]…
| hop | rtt | rtt | rtt | ip address | fully qualified domain name |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 70.84.211.97 | 61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.87.254.5 | 5.fe.5746.static.theplanet.com |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.85.127.109 | po52.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70.87.253.17 | et3-2.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com |
| 5 | 37 | 32 | 32 | 70.87.253.190 | be.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com |
| 6 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 206.223.115.185 | te1-2.cer01.wdc01.washingtondc-datacenter.com |
| 7 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 208.43.118.134 | po1.fcr01.wdc01.washingtondc-datacenter.com |
| 8 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 208.43.115.238 | hexahost.com |
Network reach to your hosting provider No of Hop, Latency will be critical factors to note
These activities have to be carried out periodically. Many of the hosting providers change their server just by changing ip pointed by your ns records. Hosting clients may not even know about the changes.
Quality hosting provider is the one who expresses actual location, Datacenter, and Network infrastructure details to the clients.
HAPPY HOSTING!
Useful info. Not many webhosters check all these facts. Only techsavy people do all these checkings.
Impact of no of hops and latency ranges will also be useful to follow.
I feel, Now hosting has taken new role all together. Each one of us wanted to have an identity through our domain name and host them. Informations like this have to be verified irrespective of your level of expertise in the given fied
Heyyy! GREAT POST!!
I have a question… is the latencies are per connection ? Thanks
I disagree with you fredi, This was the case when .com boom was new to the industry, now the clients are grown enough to look for reviews and reputation of the hosting provider.
But few of these techniques may not be the usual way of deciding a hosting provider.
Yes it is per connection.
The speed calculated is a per TCP session nothing but per connection.
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