Why some website showing hosting is Cloudfare?

silverk · May 8, 2018

Hi guys, just curious why there are some websites showing that their hosting place is Cloudfare? As far as i know the Cloudfare does not provide hosting service, so actually how they can achieve this?

I am talking about like those torrent site, movie streaming site. They dont want other know their exact hosting provider, so they mask with cloudfare. But how they can achieve? Anyone know how they do it or could you advise me the correct keyword so i can google myself also.

Thank you so much for your time. Cheers

X · May 8, 2018

Because they have their nameservers pointed at CloudFlare, which then points to their actual hosting. But tools like WhoIsHostingThis will report CloudFlare, as part of what CF does is mask your server to protect it from DDOS and such.

To achieve this, you simply sign up for CloudFlare, add your domain to it, then update your domain nameservers to point to the nameservers cloudflare assigns you.

silverk · May 8, 2018

X said:
Because they have their nameservers pointed at CloudFlare, which then points to their actual hosting. But tools like WhoIsHostingThis will report CloudFlare, as part of what CF does is mask your server to protect it from DDOS and such.

To achieve this, you simply sign up for CloudFlare, add your domain to it, then update your domain nameservers to point to the nameservers cloudflare assigns you.

I see.. does this method really able to cover their real hosting provider? Is there any other way to find out their real hosting provider or real IP address?

I saw those torrent sites are growing bigger than before and they has been there for quite long time without taking down, just wondering what is the way to find out their real hosting provider? I dont think it will needs the government or Fed to interrupt with this kind of small case right? They are not as big as Piratebay, but they do provide copyright item in their website... so if the copyright owner want to find out the website real hosting provider to take down the site, how they can do it?

djshy9785 · May 10, 2018

silverk said:
I see.. does this method really able to cover their real hosting provider? Is there any other way to find out their real hosting provider or real IP address?

I saw those torrent sites are growing bigger than before and they has been there for quite long time without taking down, just wondering what is the way to find out their real hosting provider? I dont think it will needs the government or Fed to interrupt with this kind of small case right? They are not as big as Piratebay, but they do provide copyright item in their website... so if the copyright owner want to find out the website real hosting provider to take down the site, how they can do it?

here you can see the real ip address of the domain

http://www.crimeflare.info:82/cfs.html

Why some website showing hosting is Cloudfare?

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