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]…

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!

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