Find Other Sites Running on your Hosting Server with YouGetSignal

you get signalIf you do now or have ever run a website, you know how daunting it can be to maintain a web server. You need to become an expert on many topics like DNS, MX, CNAME, web languages, and so on. Many low traffic sites or beginner sites may be hosted on a managed and shared server to save time, money, and worry. This is a great solution but the fate of this solution depends on all of the clients hosted on the server.

If one site uses too many resources or a bad piece of code, it can crash the server taking down every site with it which in some cases can be thousands of websites. Wouldn’t it be useful if you could see what other kind of sites were on the same server as you?

You Get Signal has just the tool for this. It’s called a “Reverse IP Domain Check” and it takes a site URL or IP address and tells you all or many of the domains pointing to that server. This is a good way to check to see if your webhost or ISP is overselling or if there are very high traffic sites on the same server as you. By using this tool, you can see whether or not that $2 per month hosting plan based out of some guy’s basement in Russia is worth it or not. You will save yourself hours or potentially weeks or months of frustration from crashing sites and slow loading pages.

Although the “Reverse IP Domain Check” is an extremely useful tool for website owners, YouGetSignal.com also offers other utilities, some unique and some common. They offer the popular WHOIS Lookup Tool so you can check out who owns and manages a domain name, Phone Number Geolocator to find where a call originated, Port Forwarding Test to see if a port or ports are insecure on your computer, Visual Trace Route Tool to visualize the route of network traffic, and the nifty Network Location Tool to locate a physical network on a Google Map. YouGetSignal was originally created as a project from a Brigham Young University student but in my opinion is a very helpful collection of web tools in network and website management.

What web services or applications do you use to manage your networks or websites? Let us know in the comments.

(By) Nick Volpe is a freelance blogger and web guru from techNETWORK.US, a provider of tech news, open source software, web development tools, useful tips, as well as podcasts, tech videos, and much more.

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  • David

    Thanks for the tool, just checked my host, and maaaaan there are so many other websites hosted on the same server.

    • Nick Volpe

      It is very cool to be able to check that information. The thing to remember though is that many domains can be parked and added on to hosting accounts so in actuality there may not be as many actual “sites” running as it seems. In other words the number of domains is not equal to the amount of accounts/clients on the same server, it would be less.

  • Kat

    You can also do that here: http://www.myipneighbors.com/

  • http://imadinnerjacket.com Dermah

    Haha, when I search for my site a warning comes up saying sites with adult content are hosted on your server which could affect the PageRank of your site.

    I didn’t know that :P

  • Transcontinental

    Nice to check system’s ports as well.
    A very nice web-based application. Hum, waiter, a coffee for the one who found this little gem, please.

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    Here are some other website owners might want to check

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    Good tool and it is working fine.

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    ok, so their service doesn’t look like it’s doing anything realtime, other than doing a reverse lookup on the domain you enter. What I just tested and found was that each time someone does a domain search and they do a reverse lookup they log that search result. The next time there is a search and there is the same IP address they show you the matches. This service is crap.

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