How to know a website is hosting on a VPS or a Shared or a Dedicated Server?

mattnz · Aug 15, 2016

Can you tell me how to know a website is hosting on a VPS or a Shared or a Dedicated Server? I only use this way for analyzing purpose to know a website is using which hosting/server. It can be helpful to find a good web hosting that a website is using from there.

Thanks
Matt

LJSHost · Aug 15, 2016

Hi Matt,

It can be difficult to know what is powering a website from looking at it externally.
You could do some digging in DNS to see what else is on the IP (if PTR records exist) other than that you can't be exactly sure.

VirtuBox · Aug 15, 2016

Hi Matt,
like LJSHost said, you should be able to see if there are some other websites on the same IP, but a VPS can host several websites, and if the website use cloudflare it will not work.
There is no difference between someone which use a dedicated server to host all his websites and a shared hosting.

cochinweb · Aug 20, 2016

You could search on whois.domaintools.com and there you can see if the ip is shared with other sites or not.

AlbaHost · May 18, 2017

mattnz said:
Can you tell me how to know a website is hosting on a VPS or a Shared or a Dedicated Server? I only use this way for analyzing purpose to know a website is using which hosting/server. It can be helpful to find a good web hosting that a website is using from there.

Thanks
Matt

Just curious why does it matter? Both vps/dedicated/shared will do the same job for a website, also any company which use to sell webhosting it must have their services optimised to serve and offer great performance for a website. You need to know that in most cases it does not all depend on a company server/webserver you need to optimise your site/plugins too to make it much better.

racksandcloud · May 18, 2017

Hello,

Its should be difficult to know that if you have domain name only. You can find it your server is vps or dedicated server easily if you have ssh access to the server by running a command.

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dmidecode -i | grep product
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If the server is virtual server it will shows virtualization technology used to create this VPS. If it is a dedicated server, it will shows the correct product id like "Dell model name" etc.

Best Regards,
Racks&Cloud Team

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