Is It Cloudy?

A dead simple way to check if a website is hosted on the cloud

I often found myself wondering if a given website was hosted on the cloud. After writing a script to do the whois lookup I decided why not create a simple webapp and let other peeople use it. Thus is it cloudy was born.

Play with is it cloudy at: http://isitcloudy.com

What are some cloudy websites?

Check out these bad boys...

• http://isitcloudy.com/q?url=http://www.heroku.com
• http://isitcloudy.com/q?url=http://www.rightscale.com
• http://isitcloudy.com/q?url=http://www.scobelizer.com

How do I run this awesomesauce?

• Clone the git repo git clone git://github.com/jkupferman/isitcloudy.git
• Go in the directory cd isitcloudy
• Run bundler to install all the gems bundle
• Create the database rake db:migrate
• Run the rails server script/server
• Open up your browser and go to http://localhost:3000