Verdict
powerhost.cl appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Corporate website for Powerhost datacenter offering hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, colocation, virtual datacenter and IXP connectivity. Includes product/service descriptions, locations (USA and Chile), contact phone and support portal. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007499 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Powerhost.cl is a corporate datacenter and connectivity website presenting VPS SSD services, dedicated bare-metal servers, housing and colocation, virtual datacenters, cross-connects, and IXP connectivity between the United States, Chile, and wider international networks. Its apparent business model is the sale of infrastructure capacity, hosting, connectivity, and related support services to enterprises and internet service providers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent corporate-service model, with no detected phishing, brand-impersonation, malicious-content, or suspicious behavioral indicators. Its historical record shows sustained continuity rather than recent repurposing, and external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections. This supports an apparently legitimate and established website, although it does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
- The homepage presents a consistent datacenter and connectivity business model, with no page-level red flags or detected brand-impersonation indicators.
- The domain has 499 archive snapshots spanning 2007–2026, covering 20 years with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and a global traffic rank of 45247.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site content is consistent with a mature B2B infrastructure provider and presents corporate service information, locations in the United States and Chile, contact facilities, and support access. No licensing or registration number is claimed in the supplied content; for a datacenter and connectivity business, this is a transparency item to clarify rather than evidence of a scam. A registration record lists PowerHost Telecomunicaciones (RICARDO RUBEM), but the operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified. The transport certificate is valid, while its domain-validation level provides encryption rather than organizational verification.
- Domain registration records show creation on 2008-08-26T21:16:28Z, an age of 17.97 years, registrar NIC Chile, and expiration on 2032-06-25T08:35:43Z.
- Hosting telemetry identifies AS263237, PowerHost Telecom SPA, CL.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-11-10T03:33:54+00:00.
- The contact and corporate-service presentation identifies datacenter locations in the United States and Chile and provides support access.
What to Verify Next
Before entering into a contractual, credentialed, or payment relationship, the prospective customer should independently confirm the contracting entity and applicable business registration details through an authoritative corporate or commercial registry. The customer should also obtain the relevant service terms, cancellation or refund provisions, service-level commitments, and payment-protection arrangements directly from the provider through independently confirmed channels.
- The homepage states a 99.99% uptime objective and 300Gbps connectivity claim, making the underlying service-level commitments material to procurement review.
- The site provides a contact phone and support portal for pre-contract clarification.
- The service presentation is directed toward enterprises and internet service providers, supporting a formal supplier due-diligence process rather than relying solely on website claims.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, with no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The classification supports normal website interaction, subject to ordinary independent confirmation of the operator before credential or payment activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a likely origin address, with no CDN or WAF detected and no separate edge-IP layer identified. This is a straightforward hosting architecture rather than a concealment finding; it provides less edge-layer protection but does not contradict the site’s otherwise coherent technical posture.
- Hosting resolution identified 1 unique IP, 0 CDN edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- The resolved origin address is 200.73.119.51.
- No CDN vendors were detected in the site’s infrastructure.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing is proportionate, while credential or payment interactions should follow standard independent merchant-identity, contractual-terms, and payment-protection checks.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of powerhost.cl.
- The request stayed on powerhost.cl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NIC Chile. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 112.17), across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2032-06-25. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-08-14. Clear
- It is hosted on AS263237, from a server in CL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NIC Chile |
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| Hosting | AS263237 - PowerHost Telecom SPA, CL |
| Country | CL |
| Server IP | 200.73.119.51 |
| Name servers | dns1.powerhost.cl (200.73.112.17), dns2.powerhost.cl (200.73.115.30), dns3.powerhost.cl (200.73.112.52), dns4.powerhost.cl (200.73.115.29) |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-10 |
| Domain age | 19.00 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2032-06-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-08-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 499 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about powerhost.cl at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.