How do I find out who hosts my website?
The short answer
Look on your card or bank statements for a hosting or website-builder charge, search your email for their welcome messages and invoices, or ask whoever built the site. Free online “hosting checker” tools can also read your domain’s DNS, but the bills show who you actually pay.
- Website builders: if you edit your site in Squarespace, Wix, Shopify or Webflow, that company is your host.
- WordPress and custom sites: the host is whoever bills you for hosting or a server. Look for names such as SiteGround, Hostinger, Bluehost, WP Engine, Vercel or DigitalOcean.
- DNS clues: your domain’s nameservers show who runs your DNS. That’s often, but not always, your host.
Words used here
- Website hosting
- The company that stores your website and shows it to visitors — like Vercel, Netlify, Squarespace or Shopify.
- Nameservers
- A setting on your domain that says which company runs its DNS. For example, ns1.hover.com means Hover is in charge of your traffic settings.
- DNS (the traffic controller)
- The internet’s address book: it tells a browser which computer to visit when someone types your domain.
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