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# Determining your account's server name

> If you have shared hosting or reseller hosting, your account is on a server with other accounts. Learn how to determine the server name in this article.

This article describes several methods for determining the server name for a shared hosting or reseller hosting account. You may need to know the server name to configure or access account features, such as e-mail and FTP.

## Method #1: Use the Hosting Panel to determine the server name

You can use the hosting.com Hosting Panel to determine the server name for your account. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Hosting Panel at [https://my.hosting.com](https://my.hosting.com).

2. In the left sidebar, under **Products & Services**, click **Hosting & Servers**:

   ![](https://files.readme.io/a6b28c954635ea9bd541e1448ac69955c5ba1203fed8409e77621af76ee2853c-image.png)

3. On the **Hosting & Servers** page, locate your hosting account, and then click **Manage**.

4. On the **Overview** tab, look in the **Control Panel** row. This is the server name:

   ![](https://files.readme.io/ea989fa71db84fbf8a012e671526dce0a536632de4ab117cc8d5414c5aa741a0-image.png)

## Method #2: Use cPanel to determine the server name

You can use cPanel to determine the server name. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log in to cPanel.
   > 📘 Note
   >
   > If you do not know how to log in to your cPanel account, please see [this article](/docs/accessing-cpanel).

2. In the right sidebar, click **Server Information**.

3. On the **Server Information** page, locate the **Server Name** row and note the value:

   ![](https://files.readme.io/b7a87b195cd87f842d0abe76f90f0358998b1a95c4239926c1e5d6a572c1a6d7-image.png)

4. To determine the full server name for your account:

   * If you have a **shared hosting account**, add *a2hosting.com* to the **Server Name** value. For example, if cPanel displays **mi3-ss21** for your server name, then the complete server name is *mi3-ss21.a2hosting.com*.

   * If you have a **reseller hosting account**, add *supercp.com* to the **Server Name** value. For example, if cPanel displays **mi3-sr10** for your server name, then the complete server name is *mi3-sr10.supercp.com*.

## Method #3: Use the command line to determine the server name

You can use the command line to determine the server name for an account. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your account [using SSH](/docs/using-ssh-secure-shell).

2. At the command line, type the following command:

   ```bash theme={null}
   hostname
   ```

   The full server name for your account appears.

## Related articles

* [Accessing your web site before DNS propagation is complete](/docs/accessing-your-web-site-before-dns-propagation-is-complete)