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<div align=justify>10 p.m. You are going to bed. But before that you decided to check your site to make sure everything is OK there. You repeat the usual procedure of typing the domain name into a browser or simply clicking on its name from your bookmarks. You are expecting to see a screen you know inside out. But all of a sudden your site is not loading or the browser says that it can be loaded. What is wrong here? You have done nothing to your site for the last several hours and it was working perfectly well before. 

In this article we'll provide you with a set of steps you should run to check whether a domain name is working properly.

First of all, open your command prompt (command line) and run ''ping'' or ''tracert'' commands for your domain:
 
 ping yourdomain.com

 tracert yourdomain.com

You may ask: how to open the command line? For Windows machines the command prompt is at "Start -> Run", then type "cmd" and hit enter. Type the commands above. For Mac machines it's under: "Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal".

Now some more details about the commands results. 
If the domain is working properly, the ping result will provide the list of three columns of IP address and the IP address will always be the same.
In case the IP address cannot be obtained from the ping result, run the other command. It will allow you to check where exactly the issue happened. Tracert will trace the path of your domain name from your local PC to the web server it is hosted on. The tracert result will list up to 30 hops with each hop's time. If you get results bigger than 200 ms or just an asterisk (*), then there is an issue with your domain name and you need to contact your host to check it for you.

How to choose the best host to avoid the situations described above? Keep in mind that no single host can provide 100% uptime guarantee. So, if you see the ad with 100% uptime, double think on it before signing up. 
Nowadays there are a lot of web hosting providers and it is very difficult to choose the one that will live up to your expectations. MyIdealHost provides 99.9% uptime guarantee and our support team consists of well-experienced and eager to help people. So, don't think much and sign up with MyIdealHost to get a sweet home for your site!</div>
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