
You have a business, you have an old website and finally you've decided to turn to a professional to redo it and get your online activity off the ground...but they ask you which hosting your site is on!
What is hosting? How should I know. Panic!
If you wanted to manage your emails differently? Do you know where the hosting of the emails is allocated?
These are details that, although technical, you should be aware of, or at least be able to delegate to your employees.
Let's see now how to remedy these gaps, let's take it step by step.
It's important to understand how to find out where your site is located, and more specifically which hosting your website and email account are on.
The hosting is the web space where, often, both the website and email accounts are set up.
ATTENTION: The site may be hosted on a server even if this is separate from the domain name which can remain on another hosting.
This is thanks to the DNS (Domain Name Server) and their pointing to the reference hosting.
The DNS translate an IP address, determined by numbers, into a simple domain name.
Useful tools for finding out where your website is located

The solution that immediately comes to mind for a computer technician is to use ping to understand the site's IP.
The ping (Packet internet groper) is nothing more than the computer tool (activated from the terminal of one's PC) to understand, among other things, where your site is located based on latency, i.e., how many milliseconds it takes to reach a certain network resource.
If you are not a computer technician and already start getting nervous just hearing about ping, use this website: https://www.mio-ip.it/ping/
Here you will just need to enter the website you want to analyze without http or https and without a final "/ " so that it can return the latency and the IP of the site.
From the numbers that appear, which are the IP of the site, one can trace back to which server and therefore to which hosting, the website is connected.
If the site points its DNS to another hosting service, the domain name part will not be visible, but only everything else (where the folders that make up the site are physically located).
An even simpler resource that anyone can use without being a professional is whois.
How to find out your website's hosting: Whois
The whois is a network protocol that allows identifying all the characteristics of a particular domain, including dns, hosting, creation date, expiration date and often, but not always, personal data of the owner.
Also in this case, by entering the URL of the website you will understand where it is allocated. However, I remember that the domain might always be on one hosting while the actual site could be on another.
To better understand the situation, at the top you will have the specifications of the actual site (even the DNS will refer to the folders of the site itself), whereas in the section dedicated to "Registrar", it will be possible to identify if the domain name is linked to another hosting or if everything is allocated in the same location.
In some cases, the investigative work becomes a bit more complex. For instance, if the site has been registered using what's called an anonymous domain.
Okay, the data to know which hosting your website is mounted on should be clear, but what about the email and electronic mailboxes instead?
How to trace back to the hosting managing the email mailboxes linked to the domain
If you want to find out if the email mailboxes linked to the domain are allocated on the same hosting, you will just need to analyze the DNS and specifically the MX record.
Once you have traced back to the hosting, it will be simple to analyze the DNS and see if the MX record is also connected to the domain (an example of an MX record could be: mail3.example.com).
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