An access log is a thorough list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a given website. Each and every file which was requested in some way shall be listed, so if you have just one page with 3 embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, as an example, the access log will contain a total of 6 entries - one for each of the six files which were accessed when the site visitor opened the webpage. A log usually shows the file name and path, the date, plus the visitor’s OS, browser and IP address. Occasionally you could also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your site. The info an access log file features is in human-readable plain text format. It can be processed by special software on a laptop or computer and used to write reports on the performance of a site, besides the web stats that your server may have generated.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a cloud hosting from us, you shall be able to decide if access logs must be generated and for which domains or subdomains in your account this should be done. You could activate this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, incorporated with all shared accounts. Every domain name you host or subdomain you set up shall be listed there and you'll see an On/Off option next to each and every one of them, so you can conveniently trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs independently for every site that you have. You'll be able to save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you shall see inside the exact same section of the CP. The link shall be available even after you deactivate the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data compiled by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our leading-edge web hosting platform shall generate access logs for each site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account, assuming that this function is activated. All domain names and subdomains that you have shall be listed in the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, which we provide with all the accounts, so if you want our system to start generating logs for each of them, you should just click on the compact button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You may disable this feature anytime by following the very same steps. You can find a Download link for every single log inside the same section of the CP, so you may save the content produced by our system in .txt format with no more than a mouse click. An existing log file could be downloaded even after the option has been deactivated, so you'll still be able to view the data that's already been generated.