Monday, 15 October 2012

DomainSite to Check the Status of WhoIsHosting

Have you tried find who is hosting your site, how fast your website load ( efficiency of your web host), to determine if a site is down,how many other website is hosted on thesame I.P or check the integrity of your site and many more information you seek about a particular site?

There are a number of sites to check for this information, but i will only be discussing five (5) site which i personally like using but it also depends on the information  seek . I will start my most often used ;

1. Intodns :
 This shows the status of a site especially effective when troubleshooting on a particular site. It displays three range of colours  ( Red: Error, Blue: Average but not too important, Green : OK ) to depict the status of a setting from MX Records, Missing Nameservers, Recursive Queries, NS records from your nameservers etc. Its free to use

2. yougetsignal
This is another beautiful site (huh). It has tools to check open ports on your site, identify external IP address, find out who is emailing you, reverse email and ip domain lookup. Its free also

3. blamestella
This site has some unique features and its interface is very attractive which is very unusually to other DNS tool site. The site show the response time of your site ( this can be used to determine the efficiency of your webhost) , Size of the homepage, Platform of Server, Website Content, Vendor and many more. Signup to get better features.

4. DomainTools
This is the most commonly used DNS Lookup Site,  It displays Domain Servers, Website owner Address, Contact mail,. It also has the ability to Registrar History, NS History:
IP History, Whois History, but to get the full information on this you need to have an account with them.

5. Whois :
 Not much information is displayed but its quite effective. It shows similar domains to the site, Expirztion date of registration for the site, Name servers and whois.

Other Informations;
1. SiteUpOrDown
This an effective site to determine if a site is down or up.

2. SpamDistributor
To determine if your IP is a registered spam distributor. funny thing is you may not be the culprit, your ISP is mostly responsible for this. so if any list comes with a red mark, then you need to start taking drastic steps by informing your ISP about this.



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