how to find out who is hosting a website?

[biffbacon]

so, i had a domain name ( which i beleive i still own), but dont remember who the webhost was. i logged on to my ftp through my domain name, so i didnt really care much to remember who the actual host was, but now, i realized the site is down, and i dont know wtf is going on... is there a way to find out who my host is?

 

[dartworth]

dnsstuff.com

 

[RossMAN]

WHOIS lookup

 

[zimu]

i thought a whois lookup just tells you who's your domain registrar and the registerer information?
how can yu tell who the actual web hosting company is?

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: zimu
i thought a whois lookup just tells you who's your domain registrar and the registerer information?
how can yu tell who the actual web hosting company is?

it gives you the name servers

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: zimu
i thought a whois lookup just tells you who's your domain registrar and the registerer information?
how can yu tell who the actual web hosting company is?

it gives you the name servers

Which 95% of the time gives you the primary domain of the host

 

[TitanDiddly]

Google: Whois

 

[zimu]

i figured the part about nameservers- but it is true, only 95% of the time. however two of my website are running on a custom DNS scheme, so when i ran a whois of them, the DNS info tells me nothing, no leads to my hosting provider...

 

old emails and credit card bills

 

[n0cmonkey]

nslookup host.tld
whois ip.address

 

[kt]

I just use Netcraft. 90% of the time, the webhosting company is the netblock owner. If it is further delegated, then I will need to use 'whois'.

 

[RossMAN]

Received your PM, since I cannot reply I'll just post it here.

All I did was a simple whois lookup which shows your web host is HostPC.com

To get your web site back online helpdesk ticket with your domain and other pertinent details.

They did recently move data centers and you could have been affected. It could be as simple as logging in to NameCheap.com and updating your name servers. Submit a support ticket and ask them what's up.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: zimu
i figured the part about nameservers- but it is true, only 95% of the time. however two of my website are running on a custom DNS scheme, so when i ran a whois of them, the DNS info tells me nothing, no leads to my hosting provider...

You can check which host uses the IPs of those nameservers. Feel free to PM me your domain and I'll tell you who hosts it

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Received your PM, since I cannot reply I'll just post it here.

All I did was a simple whois lookup which shows your web host is HostPC.com

To get your web site back online helpdesk ticket with your domain and other pertinent details.

They did recently move data centers and you could have been affected. It could be as simple as logging in to NameCheap.com and updating your name servers. Submit a support ticket and ask them what's up.

rossman, thanks a ton. thats exactly what happened. apparently they migrated some servers, and i got dumped. i never received an email or anything- and that is some crap. now to update my account and get my site back online, they want my original bill- which was from like 6 months ago, and i had thrown away.

im getting screwwwwwwwed by hostpc.com

 

[RossMAN]

Did you pay via Paypal or credit card?

 

[hostpcJoe]

We've already moved your account to the new servers, and the new DNS information was sent to you earlier this morning to the e-mail address on file (@jorsm.com)

If this is an incorrect e-mail address, please let us know.

I don't see a current ticket for you in the helpdesk, so I'm not sure who asked you for a receipt, but I did address this issue first thing this morning with my staff.

Please let me know directly if you have any further questions.

Joe

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: hostpcJoe
We've already moved your account to the new servers, and the new DNS information was sent to you earlier this morning to the e-mail address on file (@jorsm.com)

If this is an incorrect e-mail address, please let us know.

I don't see a current ticket for you in the helpdesk, so I'm not sure who asked you for a receipt, but I did address this issue first thing this morning with my staff.

Please let me know directly if you have any further questions.

Joe

Thanks Joe and welcome to the AT forums

biffbacon - Joe is here because I e-mailed him asking for his assistance.

 

[biffbacon]

rossman, thanks a ton for all the help!

 

[RossMAN]

Don't thank me.

Thank HostPC.com, next time you shouldn't jump to conclusions.

Are you able to login now?

Have you changed your DNS name servers with NameCheap.com?