How to Determine Your Server Location

Which Data Center is My Server Located in?

All of our servers are housed in Data Centers located in the USA and Amsterdam. To find out on which coast (East or West) your server is located, log into your Account Management Panel to view your Account Technical Details and find your server name.

If the name begins with “ec” or “ams” (i.e.: ecbiz###, amsres###, ecded###, amsld###) then your server is housed in either the East Coast or Amsterdam Data Centers respectively.

Conversely, server names that do NOT begin with “ec” or “ams” (i.e.: biz###, res###, ded###, ld###) are housed in the West Coast Data Center.

For VPS customers, you can use the results of a traceroute to determine the server location (following the same naming convention).

Example output for East Coast VPS:

traceroute vps###.inmotionhosting.com traceroute to vps###.inmotionhosting.com (86.75.3.09), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets  1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  4.356 ms  2.383 ms  2.279 ms  2  * * *  3  100.127.41.100 (100.127.41.100)  12.340 ms  11.914 ms  9.615 ms  4  172.22.51.106 (172.22.51.106)  10.477 ms  11.044 ms  10.053 ms  5  lag-101.bear2.richmond1.level3.net (4.26.66.25)  18.780 ms  17.062 ms  17.884 ms  6  * * *  7  4.79.22.110 (4.79.22.110)  21.348 ms  19.788 ms  24.060 ms  8  * * *  9  * * * 10  eccomp8-havp6.inmotionhosting.com (104.193.140.59)  18.989 ms  21.000 ms  29.865 ms 11  vps###.inmotionhosting.com (86.75.3.09)  18.642 ms  15.533 ms  18.104 ms

Example output for West Coast VPS:

traceroute vps###.inmotionhosting.com traceroute to vps###.inmotionhosting.com (86.75.3.09), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets  1  172.16.151.1 (172.16.151.1)  12.820 ms  13.948 ms  13.176 ms  2  172.21.224.201 (172.21.224.201)  15.089 ms  22.902 ms  17.866 ms  3  172.22.51.120 (172.22.51.120)  19.419 ms  18.277 ms  15.698 ms  4  ashbbprj01-ae2.rd.as.cox.net (68.1.0.242)  21.437 ms  23.655 ms  22.416 ms  5  68.105.30.114 (68.105.30.114)  91.043 ms  22.756 ms  25.550 ms  6  100ge13-1.core1.lax1.he.net (184.105.80.202)  83.259 ms  87.038 ms  98.674 ms  7  100ge14-1.core1.lax2.he.net (72.52.92.122)  96.475 ms  91.090 ms  96.101 ms  8  corporate-colocation-inc.10gigabitethernet10-15.core1.lax2.he.net (64.62.214.114)  80.727 ms  84.725 ms  83.419 ms  9  205.134.225.38 (205.134.225.38)  90.648 ms  93.550 ms  94.306 ms 10  * * * 11  * * * 12  * * * 13  wccomp14-havp1.inmotionhosting.com (104.244.122.24)  82.278 ms  82.869 ms  86.232 ms 14  vps###.inmotionhosting.com (86.75.3.09)  88.380 ms  85.456 ms  84.953 ms

You can always contact our Live Technical Support for further assistance.

JB
John-Paul Briones Content Writer II

John-Paul is an Electronics Engineer that spent most of his career in IT. He has been a Technical Writer for InMotion since 2013.

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2 thoughts on “How to Determine Your Server Location

  1. Is it possible to move my websites to your Virginia) servers since my business is local on the East Coast. They are currently hosted on your West Coast servers.

    1. Hi Chris. Please submit a verified ticket request asking to move your account to the east coast servers/datacenter and we’ll take care of it! Please note, though, that we can only move accounts, so if you have multiple sites on an account they will all be moved to the east coast data center. Hope that helps!

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