Hosting my Wordpress website on the Free plan

Website, Application, Performance
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What is the name of the domain?

What is the error number?

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What is the error message?

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What is the issue you’re encountering

I purchased a website earlier this year, and their tech team did all of the transfers. I have no idea where my Wordpress site is hosted, but the nameservers are pointing to Cloudflare. I am able to login to the Cloudflare account and can see that it’s on the Free plan and can see the DNS setting from the dashboard, but that’s it. However, I don’t see where Wordpress is installed on my cloudflare account. How can I tell if Wordpress is installed through my account on Cloudflare? If it’s not, how do I find out where my wordpress site is actually hosted? Everything I read online is to check the DNS and that is where my site is hosted. My DNS shows the cloudflare servers, but again, I don’t see anything that shows Wordpress is installed through Cloudflare.

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Cloudflare doesn’t offer Wordpress hosting.

Cloudflare is handling DNS for your domain. In the Cloudflare DNS settings you can see the IP address that your domain is pointing to, which should give you a clue to follow. Whoever owns that IP address is (probably) your hosting provider.

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Thanks @i40west . Would I look at the ‘A’ record?

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Yes. If there are other records they can also provide clues. An MX record can lead you to whoever is hosting email for the domain.

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