Most of us couldn’t afford paying for a dedicated server. So we use a shared hosting where most of our hosting provider cramp in a huge hosts of websites in one server. Do you ever wonder how many websites/blogs or users are using the same server as your websites/blogs? I bet most of you do not know. I didn’t know earlier either until I found My IP Neighbors - a reverse IP domain checking tool. How it works is that you enter a domain name and the tool looks up your server’s IP address, and then finds out which other websites use the same IP.

Using My IP Neighbors, now I knew that the server is shared with another 73 websites! That’s freaking a lot. No wonder sometimes my blog is so slow. But that is what a shared hosting is about.

So, use My IP Neighbors and share with me the number of websites is sharing the server with your blog or website.

[via LarryLim]