We’ve introduced many types of Advanced Resources that can be found for you without spending a dime with the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel! They are meant for web–developers as well as for online marketers that want to manage their website hosting environment independently. It’s easy to generate an .htaccess file, modify the PHP build for your own account, customize the php.ini file, configure numerous automated jobs and applications, and many more!

All of the Advanced Resources follow the layout pattern in our Site Control Panel, which makes them truly uncomplicated.

Hotlink Protection

Shield yourself from bandwidth theft

Whenever you produce unique information for your website, you should safeguard it from individuals who want to use it devoid of your approval. By reason of this, we have developed a specialized defensive tool within the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel. Grand Island Web Hosting’s Hotlink Protection tool is made to shield all the graphics within your web site from being published in different publications without having your agreement.

The software tool is absolutely handy, without the need of setting required whatsoever. All you have to conduct is simply pick which domain name to guard and trigger the service.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Automatic creation of .htaccess files

Thanks to the .htaccess file, it’s easy to manage your website – set redirections, make username and password protected directories, etcetera. In the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel, you can quickly develop unique .htaccess files by making use of the mighty .htaccess Generator.

You don’t have to know a single thing about .htaccess files so as to use our .htaccess Generator. Merely indicate the modifications you intend to generate using the tool’s convenient point–and–click interface and it will quickly generate the necessary code for you.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Block out harmful IP addresses from accessing your site

Inside the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel we’ve incorporated an extremely handy tool that permits you to minimize the ways to access your sites by hindering numerous IP addresses. Using the IP blocking tool, it’s possible to halt an IP address as well as an entire array of IPs from being able to access your website. To determine which IP addresses create the ’harmful’ traffic to your web site, you should check out the Stats Manager.

All of the IP addresses will be impeded promptly and then no one will have the ability to view or access your site from them any longer.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Switch the PHP settings for your personal website

For all of the cloud hosting packs from Grand Island Web Hosting, you may choose the PHP version for your web sites – from older PHP releases such as PHP 4 up to the most current stable editions. You can do that with a click. All the modifications are going to be applied blazingly fast. For each and every PHP version, you have access to the php.ini file for your site, so you can totally affect the manner PHP works.

You will find a streamlined user interface, which allows you to swiftly change the most crucial PHP functions. Anytime, you can also go back to the default adjustments in order to recover a backup.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Set automated scheduled tasks

When there’s something your web site or web application would need to execute every day, it’s possible to automate it thanks to a cron job. Cron jobs let you build planned jobs, that may be carried out at specified intervals. You could set cron jobs to e–mail you the condition of your website everyday as well as to erase short–term files once a week so as to free disk space inside your website hosting account.

Every cloud hosting pack offers a specified amount of cron jobs. Extra cron jobs are offered at any moment from the Site Control Panel.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Fantastic way to protect your files

Password protection is really an approach to secure your website’s full content employing a password to ensure that just certain account holders have access to it. For instance, you will need security password protection in case you are in the process of developing your website and don’t wish search engines or other people to find it prior to it being prepared or if you wish to have a private directory for your site with authorized entry.The Password Protection instrument included in the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel can help you make that happen with merely a couple of mouse–clicks. You will be the only one who knows the username and password necessary to log in should you not share them with someone else.

The security password will be kept in an encrypted format, so no individual can see it or read it. Only you, as the web site owner are going to be allowed to adjust it.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL redirection with a few mouse–clicks

Through the Grand Island Web Hosting Site Control Panel, it is easier to rapidly route your website to a different location by means of the URL Redirection instrument. It is really intuitive – everything you should make is specify where exactly your website will be pointing to. No requirement for any type of .htaccess files, PHP redirections, DNS configurations, and the like to be made. Your domain will be sent straight to the brand new area instantly.

You are able to cease the site re–direction whenever you want. Everything you should complete is visit the URL Redirection tool and turn off the site re–direction. Then your web site is going to begin going to the initial location.

URL Redirection