Question

How do I find out which country my server is located in?

Posted on August 7, 2017
DigitalOcean Ubuntu
Asked by ephemer

How can I find out the location of my hosting. Because it was set up by the administrator. Can anyone share the link if there is a possibility.

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lampreyOne • August 7, 2017

Accepted Answer

Which datacenter are you in? Under your droplet name you should see a line like “1 GB Memory / 30 GB Disk / NYC1 - Debian 8.8 x64”

the NYC1 (or SFO2, or TOR1, etc) indicated which data center the droplet is in. That should also tell you which country.

Mouhsen Ibrahim • August 8, 2017

@ephemer

Use the ip address of your droplet to locate where it is

geoiplookup <ip_address>

Hope this helps.

Ensis • February 25, 2020

It’s not always clear what these identifiers like mentioned “NYC1” mean. I have for example “AMS3”. I think there should be added explicit information about this in the panel. If I had many droplets spread across multiple locations, I’d like to be able to search by location. To be honest I am very surprised that even information is not there - Amazon EC2 console has it way clearer, so something to improve for #digitalocean