Who hosts salesforce.com?

salesforce.com is served through Akamai, which hides the company hosting its origin servers. Its DNS is run by salesforce-dns.com and its email is handled by Proofpoint (email security gateway).

Hosting details for salesforce.com

Hosting network
Akamai
Autonomous system (ASN)
AS20940 · Akamai International B.V.
IP address
2.19.176.123 (and 3 more)The address of www.salesforce.com, which is what visitors reach.
Server country
IrelandAs reached from Europe; large sites answer from many countries
CDN or platform
Akamaiwww.salesforce.com points to www.salesforce.com.edgekey.net
DNS provider
salesforce-dns.com, Self-hostedpch1.salesforce-dns.com, pch2.salesforce-dns.com, udns1.salesforce.com, udns2.salesforce.com, …
Email provider
Proofpoint (email security gateway)mxa-00177002.gslb.pphosted.com
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What we found

salesforce.com answers on 2 IPv4 addresses and 2 IPv6 addresses, all on the Akamai network.

Having several addresses in one country is typical of a CDN: each is a separate entry point to the same network.

Its DNS is run by salesforce-dns.com, a different company from the one serving the website.

Incoming email passes through Proofpoint, a security gateway that filters mail before it reaches the mailboxes.

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