An access log is a complete list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a certain Internet site. Every single file that was requested for some reason will be listed, so if you have only one webpage with 3 embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, for instance, the access log shall contain a total of 6 entries - one for any of the six files which were accessed when the website visitor opened the page. A log normally shows the file name and path, the date, as well as the visitor’s Operating System, browser and IP address. Sometimes you can also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your website. The data an access log file features is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to write reports on the functionality of a website, in addition to the web statistics that your hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs shall be really simple when you purchase a hosting from our company. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, supplied with all of the accounts, features a section on different logs which is where you will find the access logs as well. When you go there, you'll see a list of all the domain names hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform shall start producing an access log for each of them when you click on the On button, which you'll see on the right. If you no longer need logs, disabling the option is just as quick and can be done by clicking on the Off button inside the exact same section. All the logs are downloadable, which means that you can effortlessly save and manage them on your desktop PC or notebook.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you'll have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with only a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting CP. You'll find this feature within the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access after you sign in. All it takes for our system to start creating logs is a click on the On button that you can see there. The feature can be activated independently for any website regardless of whether it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you shall find a complete list of all the hosts in that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with a click and you could then look at it manually or use some software on your computer. The log generation could be deactivated by simply switching the On option to Off in the Logs section of your CP.