We’ve made a couple of Advanced Instruments that can be found for you free–of–charge with our hostshot Site Control Panel! They are created for web developers or for webmasters who wish to handle their web hosting environment by themselves. You can quickly create an .htaccess file, replace the PHP version for your personal cloud hosting account, alter the php.ini file, create many different automatic tasks and apps, and even more!

All Advanced Instruments stick to the layout pattern of our Site Control Panel, making them extremely convenient.

Hotlink Protection

Safeguard yourself from traffic cyber–theft

When you create genuine content material there’ll always be someone that will try to make use of without having your agreement. It pertains simultaneously to written content and also visuals. This is where the Hotlink Protection tool built into the Site Control Panel will truly help you. With just a click, you are going to shield all photographs within your site by stopping other websites from connecting to them.

Using this method, you will not only end others from using your pics, but you’ll at the same time ensure you stick to your monthly data traffic restriction.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Automatic creation of .htaccess files

At hostshot, you’ll get accessibility to the .htaccess file of one’s web site, and that means you can make as much transformations as you want. Including a few lines to the settings file, it is easy to route your site to a different link, or establish security password defense for a particular directory, etcetera.

With the highly effective .htaccess Generator within the Site Control Panel, you don’t need to possess any knowledge about .htaccess files. Merely show the tool what you need to accomplish as well as for exactly which site, afterwards click the Save button. Our intelligent program will create the .htaccess file for you in seconds.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Stop malevolent IP addresses from your web site

Inside the hostshot Site Control Panel we have included an exceptionally practical tool that allows you to minimize the ways to access your websites by blocking different IP addresses. While using the IP blocking tool, you can easily halt an IP address or maybe a a full array of IPs from opening your website. To see which IP addresses generate the ’harmful’ website traffic to your website, you can check out the Stats Manager.

All IPs are obstructed immediately and then no–one will have a way to find or access your website from them any longer.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Change the PHP settings for your personal site

With all of the cloud hosting deals from hostshot, you can select the PHP build for your web sites – coming from old PHP releases including PHP 4 up to the newest stable builds. It can be done with a click of the mouse. All the adjusts are carried out in a flash. For each PHP edition, you can get the php.ini file for your own site, allowing you to fully modify the manner PHP works.

We offer a slimmer interface, which lets you swiftly customize the most crucial PHP settings. At any time, you may also go back to the normal configuration in order to bring back a back up copy.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Generate automatic scheduled jobs

If you have something that your website or web app has to complete on a regular basis, you’ll be able to automate it by means of a cron job. Cron jobs let you build scheduled jobs, that can be implemented at particular periods. You could set cron jobs to e–mail you the position of one’s site everyday or erase temporary files once a week so as to liberate disk space inside your cloud hosting account.

Each cloud hosting plan offers a specified amount of cron jobs. Additional cron jobs can be purchased anytime through your Site Control Panel.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Great way to protect your files

If you need to set up an area within your website that can be seen simply to the folks you want, you should make full use of our Password Protection tool. Working with it you can quickly create a password protected folder that’ll be encoded and accessible simply to you and anybody else who you share the logon credentials with.

The directory is going to be secured immediately and no one else will be able to check out what exactly is inside. You can be the only person who will be in the position to alter or switch it unless you choose to authorize different customers to get into it.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL re–direction with just several clicks

In case at anytime you need to direct your site to a different website address, you can do that quickly with the URL Redirection tool integrated in the hostshot Site Control Panel. You simply won’t have to make a distinct .htaccess file and address complicated lines of code. All you should actually do is pick which website to reroute and exactly where you’ve chosen it to go to. Our intelligent system is going to take care of every little thing instead of you.

And if you no longer need the domain redirection that you’ve set, you can easily revoke it with merely a click.

URL Redirection