An access log is a complete list of all the files which were accessed by the visitors of a certain website. Every single file that was requested in some way shall be listed, so if you have only one webpage with three embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, as an illustration, the access log will contain a total of six entries - one for any of the six files that were accessed when the visitor opened the webpage. A log usually provides the file name and path, the date, in addition to the visitor’s Operating System, web browser and IP address. Occasionally you may also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your site. The data that an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It may be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to prepare reports on the overall performance of a site, besides the web statistics your web hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Web Hosting

If you obtain a cloud web hosting from us, you will be able to determine if access logs have to be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You may activate this feature from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, incorporated with all shared accounts. Each and every domain you host or subdomain you set up shall be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can effortlessly enable or deactivate the generation of access logs separately for each website that you have. You could save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you'll see within the very same section of the CP. The link shall be available even after you disable the log generation, so you will still have access to the data collected by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take more than several clicks to activate the generation of access logs by our system if you need them. The function could be permitted through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and this can be done independently for every single domain or subdomain you have in your account. When you log in and navigate to the Access/Error Logs section of the CP, you will find a list of all the hostnames with an On/Off button next to all of them. A single click shall activate the log generation and another one shall deactivate it, so you can control this function with great simplicity. A Download link in the same section will permit you to save the created content as a text file, that you may then use on your PC. Even if the logs are disabled, you shall still be able to download the data that has been previously generated.