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Who hosts the top SA websites?
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News24, Supersport and Mweb are all Naspers companies so you can't really say that from this list.
Shake&Bake
Party Liaison
What is Howzit.MSN?! 
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:erm:What is Howzit.MSN?!
Its that address that automatically loads up when you open IE by default (In SA). So the numbers are incredibly artificial and superficial.
Yip, same for Vodacom and Microsoft... so we left with:
News24 MWEB
IOL Internet Solutions
News24 mobile MWEB
MyBroadband Hetzner
TimesLive Internet Solutions
JunkMail Internet Solutions
Why differentiate between new24 and news24 mobile? Honestly a bigger sample of websites would have made sense... with the likes of gumtree.co.za, bidorbuy.co.za etc...
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SomeoneEls
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kissingmybbgoodbye
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Sorry but this is a useless article most of the websites are naspers subsidiaries so obviously they are hosted by mweb I didn't need an article to know this
Avenue
Expert Member
Didn't have a clue what the article was on about, but the table at the end was interesting.
IP Address: 74.125.233.24
Hostname: cpt01s01-in-f24.1e100.net
IP Country: United States
IP Country Code: USA
IP Continent: North America
IP Region: California
Guessed City: Mountain View
IP Latitude: 37.4192
IP Longitude: -122.0574
Organization: Google
ISP Provider: Google
The domain name was registered by WebAfrica on Googles behalf.
Would love to know what datacenter they reside in .. somewhere in CPT from what I can gather
traceroute to www-cctld.l.google.com (74.125.233.24), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.204 ms 0.339 ms 0.310 ms
2 wwg-ip-bb-1.ipnet.wa.co.za (41.185.102.1) 118.220 ms 26.009 ms 12.805 ms
3 wnls-ipc1-vl-105.wa.co.za (196.220.59.250) 9.733 ms 10.272 ms 9.858 ms
4 wnls-cr1-vl-801.wa.co.za (41.185.0.67) 9.572 ms 8.757 ms 11.090 ms
5 wbrs-csw1-vl-140.wa.co.za (41.185.1.5) 10.301 ms 10.373 ms 10.528 ms
6 google.cinx.net.za (196.223.22.41) 9.871 ms 10.459 ms 10.302 ms
7 * * *
8 cpt01s01-in-f24.1e100.net (74.125.233.24) 12.476 ms 87.352 ms 66.752 ms
WAJeff
Web Africa Representative
Nope, most of Google's IP's route to their HQ, being Mountain View, California. Where the request is routed to from there is probably based on some clever location and server load balancing algorithm. Note that some IP's could be spoofed so it's not a failsafe method, if the owner is trying to hide. The domain name was registered locally by WebAfrica for a Google subsiduary called MarkMonitor. It's seems Google is pretty secretive about the server infrastructure... read here:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/27/google-data-center-faq/
It's a bit old(2008), but still interesting!
You can check the domains server location via the IP's, just CMD and ping 'google.co.za', that will give the IP, then submit the ip at www.ipaddresslocation.org to see where the IP resolves to. For local info on domain regs use whois.co.za
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yeah, clearly the local mirror is merely a load balancer or something but it definitely is in SA, you can't get pings like this off anywhere in the states... from an adsl line at least.
PING www-cctld.l.google.com (74.125.233.24): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=9.905 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=19.915 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=11.313 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=9.853 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=14.188 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=9.408 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=10.595 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.233.24: icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=11.245 ms
True, must be some little DNS routing trick... where the clever guys?
