An access log is a complete list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a certain Internet site. Each and every file which was requested in some way shall be listed, so if you have only one webpage with three embedded pictures, one video and one embedded text file, as an illustration, the access log shall contain a total of six entries - one for any of the 6 files that were accessed when the website visitor opened the page. A log usually provides the file name and path, the date, as well as the visitor’s OS, web browser and IP address. Sometimes you may also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your Internet site. The information an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It can be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to write reports on the overall performance of a site, aside from the web statistics your hosting server may have created.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Web Hosting

If you purchase a cloud web hosting from our company, 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 can enable this feature from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, integrated with all shared accounts. Each and every domain 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 easily trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs individually for every single website that you have. You'll be able to save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you'll see within the same section of the CP. The link is available even after you stop the log generation, so you will still have access to the data compiled by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you'll have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than a couple of mouse clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will find this function inside the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access as soon as you sign in. All it takes for our system to start generating logs is a single click on the On button that you can see there. The feature can be activated separately for any site regardless of whether it uses a domain or a subdomain and you'll find a complete list of all the hosts inside that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with simply a click and you could then look at it manually or use some software on your laptop or computer. The log generation can be deactivated by simply switching the On option to Off in the Logs section of your Control Panel.