How can I figure out the physical location of my cloud server?

I'm renting a linux cloud server at a larger server provider somewhere in the US. I do not have physical access to the server - I have no idea where it is. Customer support wasn't able to pinpoint the exact datacenter that the server is located in. Given remote access to the server, what options do I have to figure out its location?

I've tried whois and traceroute, as well as geoip sites, but they yield drastically different results.


Solution 1:

The only way to find out where your data is physically located is to ask your cloud provider. The lesson here is simple: any data and apps you have in the cloud are physically stored on a server located at a data centre or server farm. The space is all yours and physically separate so that others cannot access it.