An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a given site. Every single file that was requested for some reason shall be listed, so if you have a single webpage with 3 embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, for 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 page. A log usually shows the file name and path, the date, in addition to the visitor’s Operating System, browser and IP address. In some cases you can also find the referrer websites that sent the visitors to your website. The information which 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 website, independent of the web stats your web hosting server may have generated.

Access Log Manager in Website Hosting

If you acquire a website hosting from our company, you'll be able to determine if access logs have to be created and for which domains or subdomains in your account this should be done. You could activate this feature from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, integrated with all shared accounts. Each and every domain name you host or subdomain you set up will be listed there and you see an On/Off option next to each one of them, so you can easily enable or deactivate the generation of access logs separately for every site that you have. You can save a log to your laptop or computer by clicking on the Download link that you'll see within the very same section of the CP. The link is available even if you deactivate the log generation, so you will still have access to the data collected by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our sophisticated website hosting platform shall generate access logs for every site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account, as long as this feature is permitted. All domain names and subdomains that you have shall be listed within the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, that we provide with all of the accounts, so if you want our system to start creating logs for any of them, you should just click on the little button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You can stop this function anytime by following the very same steps. You will find a Download link for every single log in the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you could save the content generated by our system in .txt format with no more than a mouse click. An existing log file may be downloaded even after the option has been deactivated, so you will still be able to see the data that has already been generated.