Can’t remember your hosting provider?

So you have asked someone else to set up your website and it was a long time ago. Although your website is still up, you have either stopped paying or you don’t really know where you are paying o well you pay once a year maybe in cash and you cannot remember who to. Or you just plainly don’t know. This actually happens more time than you can imagine and new web designer, developer and other such find themselves with the task of having to find what the hosting provider is for a client who generally is supposed to have the answer. To be honest, this is one of the reasons I decided to do this job, to create this business. A lot of clients don’t really get the explanation of the setup of their website, wither because they don’t want to know (it is too complicated, I trust my developer etc). But the point is that no matter how complicated things are, a person you pay to explain things to you, if they are a professional (and therefore get paid) should be able to explain the process to undergo and in a report tell you where your domain is registered, who hosts you etc so that whether or not you are interested, you can still take over, or ask someone else to, without an issue. Some professional I know would actually not go anywhere near someone who has none of that information. Others would just up their fees because it is additional work. Either way, there is a cost to a client’s business to not knowing and it has to be paid whether the information needs to be got on their behalf or the information on how to get it needs to be given.  The following is a method of getting this information for yourself. However, it does not always work as the resulting information can be a dead end. It is hard to give a client a method that might not work especially since you don’t know their hosting and thereby cannot say how likely it is to work. But on a blog, I guess, there is an excuse.

Well what I say to clients, in spite of any doubt is first of all, try and look through your emails because the following method does not work for all and you would start being charged and because any emails you may have of the exchange with the potential hosting company would be far more accurate. Anyway, if there are no results or even search, the following is the method I follow in most of the sucessful times, which tends to work for the more known hosting providers.

For example,

The only issue from now on is that the name there is generally not the hosting name and this is often where the research ends because there is no real way to reconnect the name of the ISP shown and the actual hosting name as for the example above. But for more reputable companies, the transparency is there e.g.

Another example here is