In the Hosting Gators Control Panel, you’ll find a number of Advanced Applications. They are made for cloud hosting clients that are familiar with controlling their web hosting environment. Still, on account of the simple to use user interface in the Control Panel, they’re just easy to handle, even for newcomers. What is more, we’ve added a wide range of complete how–to tutorials to help beginner clients promptly figure out how to work with the software tools!

Hotlink Protection

Protect yourself against bandwidth theft

In the Hosting Gators Control Panel, you can instantaneously defend all the photographs in your sites from getting used elsewhere without your permission. And you can now do this with only a few mouse–clicks by making use of Hosting Gators’s Hotlink Protection tool.

Everything you should do is decide on the domain you wish to secure and then switch on the Hotlink Protection. Modifications are going to work automatically and your photographs will be guarded from unwanted use and data transfer thievery.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Computerized building of .htaccess files

Integrated in the Hosting Gators Control Panel you will find .htaccess Generator – an effective instrument, which enables you to create .htaccess files without needing to make them by hand. The tool requires no experience and also zero understanding of .htaccess file administration.

By having an .htaccess file, you can quickly reroute a number of webpages of one’s site and the entire website to a whole new area. You may as well make use of it to secure a directory with a password or even to allow for PHP code inside HTML files, etcetera.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Prevent malicious IPs out of your site

If you need to block a spammer from accessing your site, an Internet troll from your message board or a a group of IP addresses flooding your site, you ought to make use of our convenient IP blocking tool. It allows anyone to swiftly obstruct an IP address or maybe a a whole IP variety from ever accessing your website.

Our IP Blocking tool is absolutely uncomplicated. All you need do is enter in, the IP address (and / or addresses) that you like to bar and then press the action button. All the IPs you’ve inserted can be blocked automatically.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Change the PHP rules for your personal site

The Hosting Gators Control Panel presents the choice to immediately alter the PHP edition for your cloud hosting account. You are able to pick from older PHP editions up to the most current stable PHP launch. We have designed a simple point–and–click interface that allows you to change the PHP version as many times as you like. Then the release you’ve picked will be applied in the blink of an eye.

No matter which PHP build you choose, additionally, you will have complete control within the php.ini file – the PHP configuration file for your hosting account. You can quickly alter some of the most common selections, alter the whole php.ini file or quickly revert all adjustments and set things to their default state.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Generate automated planned jobs

If you have something which your website or web application needs to conduct day–to–day, you can easily automate it by using a cron job. Cron jobs allow you to set up scheduled chores, that may be carried out at selected periods. You may create cron jobs to email you the position of your respective web site on a daily basis or delete short–term files every week so as to free disk space inside your hosting account.

Every single cloud hosting pack comes with a different amount of cron jobs. Further cron jobs can be bought at any moment within your Control Panel.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Great way to defend your data

With the Hosting Gators Control Panel, you will be able to rapidly secure each directory within your site, thanks to Hosting Gators’s Password Protection instrument. Everything you need to do is pick the directory you wish to shield and then state a username together with a password that only you know. Your folder and all of its files are going to be secured instantly.

The password you have specified can be held in a secured way. Nobody can read it and you’ll be capable of switch it once you need.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL re–direction with merely a few mouse–clicks

If at any moment you decide to redirect your web site to a new website URL, it can be done quickly when using the URL Redirection tool built inside the Hosting Gators Control Panel. You simply won’t need to generate a distinct .htaccess file and manage any kind of complicated lines of code. All you need to do is select which website to direct and exactly where you’d like it to lead to. Our clever system is going to manage everything for you.

If you no longer need the site re–direction you have arranged, it is possible to stop it by way of a click of the mouse.

URL Redirection