Comments on: 6 Tools to Help You Analyze a Web Host

By: terryanne

terryanne — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:43:58 +0000

I cannot even begin to tell you how helpful this article is. It’s a crucial requirement to do more than just go by web reviews and stated up times when looking for a web host. I speak from experience on that!

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:04:43 +0000

Great site… thanks for sharing.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:53:25 +0000

When looking for web hosting options, the problem I was having was finding the REAL price I would be paying per month for my web host. Many “cheap” plans required a 36 month contract or they’d have a pricey setup fee or something…

So I’ve been working on this web host list on my blog (http://www.webhostranker.net/webhostinglist/) that shows the TRUE cost per month you’re paying, what you’ll owe when you sign up, etc.

Not pretty, but it does the trick. :)

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:05:29 +0000

Hi everybody!
Great to see that so many of you are enjoying this list and putting the tools to use. I have a question I would be delighted if you could help me with. Say if I register a domain, or hosting account and want to make it private so that nobody at, e.g WhoIs.org will be able to see who has registered. Is there any other way to access that information? A tool I do not know of?

If you guys know, please share!

By: Johann Maiberg

Johann Maiberg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:10:48 +0000

For a website's CMS check out WebmasterCoffee. Some of the explanations seem to be German, though...

By: Yes Man

Yes Man — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:10:22 +0000

Thanks for some great tips! Just tested the DNSstuff tool and I’m loving it!

By: Paul Viau

Paul Viau — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:08:40 +0000

Thanks for the great info. Sam spade is an awesome tool!

By: neddy

neddy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:06:21 +0000

Hi, Cheers for the useful tips!

I just thought i might add / suggest a site that i use http://wdt.net/ It’s great for all my dns/whois/web tools and queries and have been using it for about 5 months as dnsstuff seems to be a bit on the slow side for me & not to mention most of it now cost money.

All the tools on w3dt.net are free and there are like a LOT more than dnsstuff have to offer.

Once again, cheers for the web-host tips.

By: Carlos @ VPSmedia

Carlos @ VPSmedia — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:26:12 +0000

We recommend DNSstuff alot too, its very useful when diagnosing any DNS, MX, issues.

By: Joey Ross

Joey Ross — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:39:14 +0000

Hi, Great set of tools.I found some very helpful tools to help analize my site.But why is it when you do a check for similar reports, it always differ from site to site. So I guess the moral of the story, is to you these tools as a guide line only.But they are very helpful.
Thanks