{"id":596,"date":"2023-11-29T04:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/11\/29\/8649902-what-to-do-if-the-ip-location-of-your-hostinger-services-is-incorrect\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:22:06","slug":"8649902-what-to-do-if-the-ip-location-of-your-hostinger-services-is-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8649902-what-to-do-if-the-ip-location-of-your-hostinger-services-is-incorrect\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if the IP location of your Hostinger services is incorrect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You may sometimes see the <b>inaccurate location of the IP address<\/b> assigned to your Hostinger services upon checking it in public IP lookup databases.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-why-this-happens\">Why this happens<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Be assured that our engineers closely monitor and ensure that correct geolocation data is always served through a <b>geofeed<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">A geofeed, or geolocation feed, is basically a list of IP addresses and their locations. You may find Hostinger geofeed in <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-github\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/hostinger\/geofeed\/main\/geofeed.csv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">However, due to the nature of public IP databases, this data is usually <b>not updated in<\/b> <b>real time<\/b>. Public IP lookup tools may take<b> up to<\/b> <b>two months<\/b> to update their databases with correct information. Therefore, there&rsquo;s a delay, which causes you to see the incorrect IP location.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-check-different-lookup-tools\">Check different lookup tools<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">The frequency on which such data is updated varies depending on the tool. We recommend you <b>check different public databases<\/b> in order to get accurate information about the IP location of your Hostinger services. For instance:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-iplocation-net\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iplocation.net\/ip-lookup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iplocation.net<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-iplocation-io\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iplocation.io\/ip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iplocation.io<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-ipinfo-io\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ipinfo.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ipinfo.io<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">If you want to confirm your actual assigned IP directly rather than relying on third-party lookups, see <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-where-to-find-the-a-record-of-your-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4407303-where-to-find-the-a-record-of-your-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\/\">where to find the A record of your hosting plan at Hostinger.<\/a><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">To sum up, if you see an incorrect IP location of your Hostinger services, <b>no action is required<\/b> &mdash; only give the IP lookup databases some time to update this information on their end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn why you may see the incorrect IP location of your Hostinger services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8649902-what-to-do-if-the-ip-location-of-your-hostinger-services-is-incorrect","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/8649902-que-hacer-si-la-ubicacion-ip-de-sus-servicios-hostinger-es-incorrecta","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}