An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a given Internet site. Every file that was requested in some way will be listed, so if you have only one page with three embedded pics, 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 that were accessed when the visitor opened the page. A log normally contains the file name and path, the date, plus the visitor’s Operating System, Internet browser and IP address. Occasionally you could also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your website. 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 performance of an Internet site, independent of the web statistics that your web hosting server may have created.

Access Log Manager in Shared Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be really easy when you purchase a shared hosting from us. The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all the accounts, has a section on different logs and that is where you shall find the access logs as well. As soon as you navigate there, you'll see a list of all the domains hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our custom cloud hosting platform will start creating an access log for each of them when you click on the On button, that you will see on the right. If you no longer require logs, disabling the option is just as quick and can be accomplished by clicking on the Off button within the exact same section. All the logs are downloadable, so you can easily save and manage them on your desktop computer or notebook.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it shall not take more than several mouse clicks to enable the generation of access logs by our system if you need them. The feature can be enabled through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and this could be done separately for each and every domain or subdomain which you have in your account. As soon as you log in and visit the Access/Error Logs section of the Control Panel, you will find a list of all the hostnames with an On/Off button next to all of them. A single click will activate the log generation and a second one shall disable it, so you can control this function with great convenience. A Download link within the same section will enable you to save the created content as a text file, that you can then use on your computer. Even when the logs are deactivated, you will still be able to download the data that has been previously generated.