Bit of an odd question but the charity I work for has a website (not it’s main site) that has been up since 2006 (so loads of staff changes in that time) and I’m trying to find where its hosted.
I can see the domain is registered through our godaddy account and I looked at the dns entries and I thought that the server IP would be the ‘A’ entry. But if i enter that into my browser I get taken to a ‘parked domain’ page on godaddy with the url of another of the domains we have bought at some point that is listed in our godaddy account.
I’ve had a look on our godaddy account and there is no hosting package with our account.
How do I found out the server the site is on? What do I need to look for?
edit - Thanks from the ‘IP location’ I found a company name and was able to look back through a past colleagues emails and found the hosting agreement. I’m not sure the info looked the same on the whois website I’d previously tried. This seemed much clearer.
Now hopefully i can just do a password reset and log in to see whats what.
WHOIS, tracert (traceroute on *NIX), or just… ask the treasurer for whoever you send your money to every X months? (Even charities have to pay for hosting…)
looking at the whois website I used it completely omitted the ‘IP location’ which showed the hosting company. Which is not very useful. Will use the domaintools going forward.
yeah i was a bit confused as finance didn’t know when I asked them, but I guess it might not be listed as hosting or something on their system. Without a name of the company it was hard for them to check anything. But I guess we must have been paying for it for quite some time. Will have to follow up with them now.
