Why can't my website account be pinged via cmd?

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I can't ping my website! Is the server down?

If you try to ping your website, or any free hosting related server or IP address, you will most likely see the ping fail with 100% packet loss. On Windows, the output will look something like this: > ping example.com Pinging example.com [185.27.134.??] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 185.27.134.??: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Does this mean the server is down? No, failing t…