questions about the host servers

[HorseArcher]

Let's say, I want to find out who host a news-portal. Where the server is, where its hosted from.

How do I got about that?

Let's say, I want to know where the host server for - example- this one:

http://www.ushistory.org/tour/index.html

How do I figure out which server it is hosted from?

[Freddie]

Let's say, I want to find out who host a news-portal. Where the server is, where its hosted from.

How do I got about that?

Let's say, I want to know where the host server for - example- this one:

http://www.ushistory.org/tour/index.html

How do I figure out which server it is hosted from?

You could just ask them. Or do a Whois search. That may or may not throw up all the information you require it depends on if the domain owner disclosed that info when they registered it.

[HorseArcher]

You could just ask them. Or do a Whois search. That may or may not throw up all the information you require it depends on if the domain owner disclosed that info when they registered it.

Hey, thanks, damn I knew about this, I completely forgot. Rep+

[Simetrical]

whois will tell you who owns the domain. DNS and reverse DNS will give you an idea of where it's hosted:

$ dig +short www.ushistory.org
ushistory.org.
12.164.69.10

Here I use the Unix utility dig, but you can use an online DNS lookup tool as well. Once you have the IP address, you can run whois on that too, to see who controls the range of IP addresses used by the server. Using www.arin.net/whois/, I get:

AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1) 
                                  12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255
BEE ENTERPRISES, INC. BEE-ENTE77-69 (NET-12-164-69-0-1) 
                                  12.164.69.0 - 12.164.69.255

which says that the IP address comes from Bee Enterprises, Inc., which in turn gets it from AT&T. This most likely means that Bee Enterprises runs the location where the server is hosted. A site like this may be able to get the location of the server, to some degree of accuracy.