PHP trouble using @File_Get_Contents And cURL

So im basically trying to call an API that is supposed to ping a given IP address, but everything ive been trying hasn't been working, they used to work in the past because these are just snippets i gathered from an old project that used to work just fine, now they dont work, ive checked to see if it logged any PHP errors, but there was nothing in the logs.

Here are my sample codes:

cURL:

<?php


if (Isset($_POST['submit'])){

$host = $_POST['host'];
$url = "http://someapi.com/ping/?host=".$host;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
}

?>

<input type="text" name="host" placeholder="IP" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Geo Locate" />
<br>
<center>
<?php echo $data; ?>
</center>


</form>

@File_Get_Contents

<form action="" method="POST">

<?php



If(Isset($_POST['submit'])){
$host = $_POST['host'];
$api = @File_Get_Contents("http://someapi.com/ping/?host=" .$host. "");
echo $api;
}

?>

<input type="text" name="host" placeholder="IP" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Geo Locate" />
<br>
<center>
<?php echo $api; ?>
</center>
</form>

could it be something wrong with my hosting service maybe?