I don’t know who is hosting an “inherited” site.

  • This sounds crazy, I know. I have inherited the care and maintenance of a church parish website in WordPress; this site has been much neglected and spottily maintained by a dozen different people over the last years, and seems to have changed hosts as well.

    Last night I was asked to help with a WSOD problem – both admin page and the site itself. I was told that the site was hosted by GoDaddy and was given login credentials. When I went to the file manager, there was a similar site there (new.stsaviours.me), but it had not been touched in six months. I could not find any record of stsaviours.me.

    All I can figure is that the site is being hosted somewhere else, maybe on the personal server of some former webmaster, and that the church has been paying GoDaddy to host this phantom “new” site.

    My question: Is there a way to find out where a WordPress site is actually hosted? I don’t have access to admin page or files: just the website name and a login.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    The site is hosted at GoDaddy. Contact GoDaddy support.

    $ nslookup stsaviours.me
Server:		208.67.222.222
Address:	208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	stsaviours.me
Address: 50.63.40.1

[sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ whois 50.63.40.1
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]

#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
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# Copyright 1997-2019, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
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NetRange:       50.62.0.0 - 50.63.255.255
CIDR:           50.62.0.0/15
NetName:        GO-DADDY-COM-LLC
NetHandle:      NET-50-62-0-0-1
Parent:         NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0)
NetType:        Direct Allocation
OriginAS:       AS26496
Organization:   GoDaddy.com, LLC (GODAD)
RegDate:        2011-02-02
Updated:        2014-02-25
Comment:        Please send abuse complaints to [email protected]
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/50.62.0.0

OrgName:        GoDaddy.com, LLC
OrgId:          GODAD
Address:        14455 N Hayden Road
Address:        Suite 226
City:           Scottsdale
StateProv:      AZ
PostalCode:     85260
Country:        US
RegDate:        2007-06-01
Updated:        2014-09-10
Comment:        Please send abuse complaints to [email protected]
Ref:            https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GODAD

OrgNOCHandle: NOC124-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   Network Operations Center
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-480-505-8809 
OrgNOCEmail:  [email protected]
OrgNOCRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NOC124-ARIN

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE51-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Abuse Department
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-480-624-2505 
OrgAbuseEmail:  [email protected]
OrgAbuseRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE51-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: NOC124-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Network Operations Center
OrgTechPhone:  +1-480-505-8809 
OrgTechEmail:  [email protected]
OrgTechRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NOC124-ARIN

RNOCHandle: NOC124-ARIN
RNOCName:   Network Operations Center
RNOCPhone:  +1-480-505-8809 
RNOCEmail:  [email protected]
RNOCRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NOC124-ARIN

RTechHandle: NOC124-ARIN
RTechName:   Network Operations Center
RTechPhone:  +1-480-505-8809 
RTechEmail:  [email protected]
RTechRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/NOC124-ARIN

RAbuseHandle: ABUSE51-ARIN
RAbuseName:   Abuse Department
RAbusePhone:  +1-480-624-2505 
RAbuseEmail:  [email protected]
RAbuseRef:    https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/ABUSE51-ARIN

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# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2019, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
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    Look for the production site sitting in the wordpress directory on the host.

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