Who is hosting this website
Type any website and find out which company hosts it: the addresses it points to, who owns them, its nameservers and email provider. When Cloudflare or another CDN hides the real host, we say so plainly instead of guessing.
We only use public records: DNS, and the registries that list who owns each network address. Nothing on the site changes.
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Where the website points
The addresses the name leads to, and the network each one belongs to.
What we noticed
The clues behind the answer above.
The rest of the set-up
A website, its domain and its email are often looked after by different companies.
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How we work out who hosts a website
A website name is only a label. Behind it sits an address, like a house number, and every address belongs to a network that is listed in a public register. We follow that trail in three steps:
- DNS tells us which addresses the name points to, who runs its nameservers and who handles its email.
- The address registries (RDAP, the public replacement for WHOIS) tell us which company owns each address.
- The site's own answer sometimes names its host outright, for example Vercel or Netlify, or shows a CDN is in front.
The limit is a CDN. Cloudflare, Fastly and others stand in front of a site and answer for it, so the address you can see belongs to them, not to the company storing the files. When that happens we say the real host is hidden. We do not try to get around it.
Once you know the host, our SSL checker and security headers checker show how well it is set up.
Questions people ask
How do I find out who is hosting a website?
Every website name points to an address on the internet, and every address belongs to a network that is registered publicly. Type the site above and we look up where the name points and who owns that network. If no CDN is in the way, that company is the host, or the data centre it rents servers from.
Why does it say the real host is hidden?
Many sites use Cloudflare or a similar CDN. A CDN sits in front of the site and answers for it, so the address you can see belongs to the CDN and not to the company storing the files. That is exactly what it is built to do, so from the outside the real host cannot be known. Some sites are hosted by Cloudflare itself (Cloudflare Pages or Workers), in which case there is nothing hidden.
Can I find the real host behind Cloudflare?
Not reliably, and we do not try to bypass it. The honest clues are the nameservers and email provider shown above, the invoice or control panel of whoever built the site, and a plain question to the site owner.
What is the difference between a registrar, a DNS host and a web host?
The registrar is where the domain name was bought. The DNS host runs the domain's address book (its nameservers). The web host stores the site's files and serves the pages. They can be three different companies, or one company doing all three.
Does this show who hosts the email?
It shows who handles the domain's mail, from its MX records, because that is often a different company from the web host, such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. Mail and website are separate services.
Do you keep my data?
We keep the address you checked and a summary of the result, so we can improve the tool. You do not need to give us your name or email. See our privacy policy.