Finding other websites on same web host

It is useful to find out how many websites are there on a specific shared web host, especially if you want to find out who you're with.

First you need to find out the IP address of your shared web hosts. The quickest way is by just pinging your domain.

So if you go to command prompt (AKA terminal on Mac/Linux based machines) and type in:

ping google.co.uk

Typically, you would get a response that looks something like below:

Pinging Google UK

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First you need to find out the IP address of your shared web hosts. The quickest way is by just pinging your domain.

So if you go to command prompt (AKA terminal on Mac/Linux based machines) and type in:

ping google.co.uk

Typically, you would get a response that looks something like below:

Pinging Google UK

Now you have found out your web host's shared IP address, open up a browser and type in your URL/address bar:

http://www.bing.com/

In the search bar, type in the IP address that was returned from the ping with ip: prefixed to it. In this example, the search would be:

ip:74.125.230.116

If you do a search, you will get a list of all websites hosted with the searched IP. The web results is shown below:

IP Bing Search

There you have it. You have just found out a bunch of websites hosted on the same server. Try it yourself!