IP address?

[trax]

How do I find out what the IP address of my website is?

[Jade Dragon]

You do not have a unique IP for your website. Just the way Powweb is set up on a shared server.

Jade

[paulselhi]

to get the ip adrees of the server go to a dos propmt and type:

ping yourwebsite.com

replace.....duh....

[stevel]

However, as Jade implies, you can't do anything useful with the IP address of the shared server. What did you want the address for?

[Jeff321]

Currently, the IP of www0x.powweb.com is: 63.251.216.7x

The ping command as Paul suggested will get you the server's IP too. To get a DOS prompt in Windows, hit Start, Run, and type "command" or "cmd".

[trax]

Originally posted by Jeff321
Currently, the IP of www0x.powweb.com is: 63.251.216.7x

The ping command as Paul suggested will get you the server's IP too. To get a DOS prompt in Windows, hit Start, Run, and type "command" or "cmd".

That doesn't work because when I type my IP into the browser all it says is, "www01.powweb.com" followed by the IP I typed in. Typing the IP address does not give me my website.

[alphadesk]

trax
You will have to access your pages with your domain name. This is how Powweb shared servers are setup.

Again, what do you need the IP for?

[Jeff321]

Originally posted by trax
Typing the IP address does not give me my website. PowWeb is what is known as a shared web host, meaning lots of users share the same server and IP. Therefore, if you type in just the IP address, there's no way for the server to know if you want your website or a different customer's site that's using the same server and IP. So, as Alpha said, you can only access your site using your domain name, whatever.com. This is how most web hosts are set up.

Only a dedicated hosting package will give you your own IP, since you will have the server all to yourself. However, a dedicated host is much more expensive than a shared one. The majority of people with websites don't have (and don't need) their own IP.

I hope this helps, but if you're still confused about something, please let us know! :)

[stevel]

You don't have to have a dedicated server to have your own IP address - my previous hosting service was shared and I did have my own IP. But new customers who sign up there don't get their own IP and the hosting cost triple PowWeb for far less functionality.

[paulselhi]

it is possible for a single web server to have different ip addresses for different web sites ( at least with IIS on win 2000) though this would not be feasable for a large operation such as powweb, a real waste of ip adresses

[Jeff321]

You learn something new every day. I've never seen a shared host that offers customers their own IP. As you said Paul, it would be somewhat of a waste of IPs.

[Starr]

IIS requires unique IP's per domain name (or it used to). While you can "share" the server w/ several hundred other domains, they will all have their own IP. This kind of shared hosting is generally much more expensive (and since in is Win32 hosting, much more prone to problems, security violations and outages).

In the much more secure safe and stable world of UNIX, you can have each domain share the same IP as well as the server.