Check who shares your website IP - you may be surprised

IP Neighbors

I’ve just been checking on a site to check who shares the hosting for some of my domains and I was amazed that some of my domains share their IP with over 500 other sites!

Take a look at http://www.myipneighbors.com/ and see how many other sites you are neighbors with, just input your IP or domain name and it’ll search and tell you who ‘lives’ next door.

This domain (fiddyp.co.uk) has just been moved to a new server and it’s nice to see that it’s living on it’s own (for now) :-)

This might explain why emails from certain domains go straight to the spam box, guess I’ll have to start sending them from lonely domains from now on!

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This entry was written by Andy Bailey, posted on February 16, 2008 at 12:04 am, filed under Blog Tools and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

14 Comments

  1. Sharon (86 comments.)
    Posted February 16, 2008 at 8:26 pm | Permalink

    Very Interesting….. I went from a shared server to my own rack and then back to a bigger shared server with another hosting company. Got quite a bit of neighbors.

    Sharon’s last blog post..How to Get Rid of Your Double Chin

  2. Andy Bailey
    Posted February 16, 2008 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
    I was so surprised to see over 500 neighbors! On one site, there was 758 different sites all on the same shared server as me. OMG!
  3. Vladimir (13 comments.)
    Posted February 16, 2008 at 9:35 pm | Permalink

    Nice find! My blog is sharing with almost 200 ouch :)
    Vladimir’s last blog post..Did you reserve your family name domain already?

  4. Andy Bailey
    Posted February 16, 2008 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
    200 isn’t bad! small neighborhood :-)
    I can see why sometimes my old blog used to take an age to load. Yours loads pretty quickly though so I think you’ll be fine!
  5. Buy Laptop
    Posted February 17, 2008 at 4:28 am | Permalink

    I think we should know how many are our neighbors. If too many neighbors (site hosted) it will decrease server’s performance.

    Other nice usefull tools:

    http://www.domaintools.com/reverse-ip/
    http://www.who.is/

  6. Erik (1 comments.)
    Posted February 18, 2008 at 5:56 am | Permalink

    Kewl. Thanks for the info.

    Erik’s last blog post..Keith Olbermann - Mr. Bush, You Are a Fascist!

  7. tv brackets (1 comments.)
    Posted February 20, 2008 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    I realize that server companies are just trying to give us the lowest price possible, and that is why they pack the sites in like sardines.

  8. eezytrade (1 comments.)
    Posted February 21, 2008 at 9:19 am | Permalink

    Stumbled across your blog…. good tool find and I’ll be back soon to enter your competitions :-)
    Cheers,
    John

  9. Soares (1 comments.)
    Posted February 23, 2008 at 10:58 pm | Permalink

    Very good ,i got beserk the amount of websites on my hosting service

    See my last post about MyipNeighbors

    Soares’s last blog post..Como descobrir os seus vizinhos

  10. Christy (1 comments.)
    Posted February 26, 2008 at 7:21 pm | Permalink

    Yikes, I didn’t know that, now I’m scared to check and find out, lol. Have a great day Andy:)

    Christy’s last blog post..Have a Stylish Pregnany with DueMaternity.com

  11. [ Nugraha ]
    Posted March 1, 2008 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this good information… :D

  12. Sharon (86 comments.)
    Posted March 14, 2008 at 4:03 am | Permalink

    I’ve finally moved into my own new server this week, so I am so excited!!!!

    Sharon’s last blog post..Be Diva.licious: How to Get in Touch with Your Inner Diva

  13. Andy Bailey
    Posted March 14, 2008 at 2:38 pm | Permalink
    sharon: yey! remember, slow and steady wins the race! oh man do I change things quickly and then expect them to work straight away, don’t do what I did!
  14. Jeremy G. (6 comments.)
    Posted June 20, 2008 at 2:08 pm | Permalink

    I checked this out a while ago, and found over 600 sites! This might explain why there are random big slowdowns on my blog, you know, the ones that make you want to call up your host and scream at the unsuspecting tech guy from India.

    Jeremy G.s last blog post..A New Pluggin for This Site!

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