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Free Tools

Free Webmaster Tools — Hostiko

Built for Kenyan website owners, developers and IT professionals. No signup, no rate limits, no ads — just the tools we use ourselves every day.

DNS Lookup

Query A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CNAME, SOA and CAA records for any domain. Useful when migrating, troubleshooting email, or verifying nameservers.

WHOIS Lookup

See who owns a domain, when it was registered, when it expires, and which registrar manages it. Works for .co.ke and 1,000+ other TLDs.

Domain Age Checker

How old is a domain? Useful for SEO competitor research and verifying a site's legitimacy before doing business.

Who Hosts This Website?

Find out which hosting company powers any domain. Reverse DNS, IP geolocation, ASN owner, server location — perfect for competitor research.

IP Lookup

Geolocation, ISP, ASN and country for any IPv4 or IPv6 address. Useful for log investigation, geo-targeting setup, traffic analysis.

SSL Checker

Verify any website's SSL certificate — issuer, expiry date, signature algorithm. Catch certificate problems before your visitors do.

HTTP Headers Checker

Inspect any URL's response headers — security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame), caching, status code, redirect chain. Audit your site's security posture.

Redirect Chain Checker

Follow every HTTP 301 / 302 hop a URL takes. Spot redirect loops, slow chains and HTTPS downgrades.

Website Speed Test

Measure TTFB, total load time and download size for any URL — tested from our Kenyan-routed infrastructure.

Email Blacklist Checker

Check whether any IP or domain is on common DNSBLs (Spamhaus, Barracuda, SORBS, SpamCop and others). Critical for email deliverability.

Robots.txt Checker

Fetch and parse any site's robots.txt. See crawler directives, declared sitemaps, allowed and disallowed paths.

Meta Tag & SERP Preview

See how any URL renders in Google search, Facebook, Twitter/X and LinkedIn. Inspect Open Graph, Twitter card, canonical, robots.

.htaccess Generator

Build a battle-tested Apache/LiteSpeed .htaccess file with common rules: force HTTPS, redirect www, Gzip, caching, security headers, WordPress hardening.

JSON Formatter

Pretty-print, minify and validate JSON in your browser. No data sent anywhere.

URL Encoder / Decoder

Encode and decode URLs and query strings. Pure browser-side — no data leaves your machine.

Base64 Encoder

Encode and decode Base64 strings. URL-safe variant supported. 100% client-side.

Hash Generator

Generate MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes from any text. Browser-side with crypto.subtle.

Password Generator

Cryptographically strong, random passwords. Customisable length and character sets. Generated entirely in your browser.
Why we built these

Tools every Kenyan webmaster needs — free, forever.

When you run a hosting company, you use these tools dozens of times a day. We figured: why not just put them online for everyone?

No signup walls. No rate limits that throttle after 3 lookups. No tracking pixels selling your queries. Just clean, fast tools built on the same servers we host our customers on.

If you find a tool that should be here but isn't, tell us — if it's useful to the Kenyan web community, we'll likely build it.

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