The easiest way to see if a web server is online is to go to the site in your web browser, obviously. If the website still doesn’t come up there is a way to check the web server using the ping command in Windows. Open up a command prompt by click Start > Run, type in cmd and then ok.


A command prompt should pop up with a prompt such as c:\>. Here all you have to do is type ping www.website.com and you should see a “Reply from”. If you get a “Request timed out.” then your web server is probably down.

Note: Some web servers do block ping access at the firewall level, however most web servers do not.