An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a certain website. Every file that was requested for whatever reason shall be listed, so if you have just one page with 3 embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, as an example, the access log will contain a total of 6 entries - one for every of the six files that were accessed when the website visitor opened the webpage. A log typically provides the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s Operating System, Internet browser and IP address. Oftentimes you can also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your website. The information an access log file includes is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a laptop or computer and used to prepare reports on the efficiency of an Internet site, aside from the web statistics which your hosting server may have created.

Access Log Manager in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting from our company, you'll be able to decide if access logs must be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside 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 create shall be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each one of them, so you can effortlessly enable or disable the generation of access logs individually for each website that you have. You may save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you shall see inside the same exact section of the Control Panel. The link is available even if you stop the log generation, so you will still have access to the data compiled by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our advanced website hosting platform shall create access logs for every site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account, as long as this function is enabled. All domains and subdomains that you have shall be listed inside the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, which we provide with all of the accounts, so if you need our system to start creating logs for any of them, you should simply click on the compact button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and switch the default Off option to On. You'll be able to disable this feature anytime by following the exact same steps. You can find a Download link for every single log inside the same section of the Control Panel, so you will be able to save the content generated by our system in .txt format with no more than a mouse click. An existing log file could be downloaded even after the feature has been disabled, so you will still be able to look at the data that has already been generated.