http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ The Official Who is Hosting This? blog Who is Hosting This? crew http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/wht-successfully-integrated-on-builwith We are more than pleased to announce that WHT and BuiltWith.com are successfully integrated. The integration took a bit longer than we wanted but nobody is to be blamed except me :-(. The important thing is we also managed to finish our API which is now in v1-stable and should be publicly available in a couple of days along with the tech specs and other details. Some limitations will apply but the API key is issued on a per-request basis so the limitations are a matter of agreement. If you would like to integrate Who is Hosting This results on your site don't hesitate to contact us. 2007-09-23T12:19:03-01:00 http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/happy-birthday-wht Well it's not really our birthday because the site is only a month old but why miss a chance to celebrate and too look back on the good all days :-) It really was a fun and exciting month! We had about 350 thousand visitors and a little over a million page views. Weather that's a lot or not I don’t know but bear in mind that people found about us only trough sites like Digg and del.icio.us. We didn't invest a dime in advertising. My head is full of ideas on how to make the site even better and how to expand it but that'll have wait for another month or so because I'm still enjoying the Adriatic sun on the island of Krk. Come September you can surly expect some feature upgrades and as always don't hesitate to drop us a word or two, we love to hear your feedback. 2007-08-05T11:13:08-01:00 http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/how-did-it-all-begin-part-2 Although Stanislav and me agreed that "Who is hosting Who" (that was the original site name) should be launched ASAP because of the upcoming summer break when all IT industry falls asleep it took us a good week to start doing some actual work. Although the service is quite simple: you enter a domain name and we give you the hosting companies' name it took us an additional week to get things rolling. Tomo (owner of Origami) helped out with the design, XHTML and CSS, Stanislav did all the promotions and I spent a good 100 hours writing and optimizing all our net, PHP and MySQL code. During development we canned the original name and decided to go with "Who is Hosting This?" which was, as later shown, a very good decision. Dedicated hosting was a must for us and since we had very good experience with (mt) Media Temple hosting and domain issues were resolved within a few days. The first, closed beta was rolled out relatively fast, after about 30 hours of development but stress testing showed that network related algorithms needed more cache or we wouldn't be able to handle much traffic and deliver fast response to every query. After some more coding and two additional layers of cache our baby was ready to see the world. On the 5th of June it was public! We slowly started to promote it and still worked on some minor issues and server optimizing. The optimizing was more than needed two days later when Who is Hosting This? got on the frond page of Digg. The service was partially available for a couple of hours but after that everything got back to normal. From the time Stanislav and me decided to create WHT till the dime it was done almost a month passed but believe me although it looks simple under the hood this is quite a project. Stay tuned for more inside info, and especially some detailed "under the hood" stories. 2007-07-31T11:06:33-01:00 http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/how-did-it-all-begin-part-1 Wednesday the 13th of June was one of those days when 24 hours just isn't enough to get everything done. As if frantically running around all day wasn’t enough my friend Toni called me and said he received some hush-hush info that our project Skarabej - Museum of old family photographs will receive the World Summit Award 2007 (WSA) in one of the (many) categories. Since we received this info it was polite that we show up on the awards ceremony. And so we did. The ceremony itself was a disaster because the main sponsor of the awards (the Croatian government) received one of the awards (or to be more precise they bought it) and instead of some proper refreshments on a very hot day we got some worm strawberries and warm campaign in tiny glasses. But, the gold medal hanging around or necks kept our spirits up. Since a lot of influential e-people showed up on the event we decided to grab something to eat with some of them. Chinese duck and pork was the choice and between drinking gallons of water to ease the fire in our mouths Stanislav (founder of Franticindustries) and me started to talk about some ideas. Every idea I proposed he literally killed saying it was already done and it's not interesting. So finally, it was his turn and the very first thing he said was: "I frequently need to find out what company is hosting a certain site, and I can't". Yea sure, for us geeks that hold CCNA and similar certifications that info isn't hard to get but for the average surfer that data is berried deeper than it should be. I liked the idea from the very start with one exception. Being a mathematician it bugs me when I can't get my algorithms to perform 100% correct and it was more that obvious that I won't be able to get to a 100% accuracy on this issue. But we all agreed that something around 95% would be good enough and agreed that the development should start right away! 2007-07-30T11:06:36-01:00