2 Ways To Find All Websites Hosted On Your Shared Server (Reverse IP Lookup)

If you use shared hosting then you may want to know how many websites are hosted on your server. If there are too many websites hosted on your shared server then its not a good sign and you should switch to a better web host.

Reverse IP Lookup

We will use reverse IP lookup to determine all the websites hosted on a web server.

A web server is basically just like any other computer, except that it runs some server software like Apache, and serves web pages on request (HTTP request). Check the video below for details,

A web server has a unique IP address. So, to determine the list of websites hosted on a web server, we need to determine,

1. The IP address of the web server.
2. Then we have to find all the websites hosted on that IP address.

1. Finding The IP Address of The Web Server

You can easily determine the IP address of the web server that hosts a website. On Windows,

• Open command prompt (Start > Run, Type cmd and press Enter)
• Type ping sitename.com and press Enter.

You will instantly get the IP address of the web server that hosts sitename.com. For instance, the image below shows how I determined the IP address of the web server that hosts Google.com.

Similarly you can find the IP address of the web server that hosts your website.

2. Find All Websites Hosted on an IP Address

Now that you have the IP address of the web server that hosts your website, you can easily determine all the websites hosted on this IP address using bing.

Type ip:IP-Address in the bing search box to get the list of websites hosted on the respective IP address.

Easy? Isn’t it.

Directly Get The List Of Neighboring Websites

The process of manual reverse IP lookup involves many steps, as explained above, and thus, takes time. If you are in a hurry, you can use this neat online service called MY IP Neighbors. Just go to MY IP Neighbors and enter the website’s URL. It will display all the websites hosted on same server automatically.

If you are using MY IP Neighbors, you can also setup email alerts to get real time updates on the number of sites hosted on your server.

Note that MY IP Neighbors works in the same way as described above. It just simplifies the process for us by doing all the processing behind the scenes.

Enjoy!