We have enclosed a good amount of Advanced Tools inside the EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel. All these tools can help you do easy tasks for instance protecting a directory by using a password and also more challenging ones like, for instance, adjusting the PHP build of your hosting account. Although the jobs they actually do are very different, all of the Advanced Tools have one uniformity. They’re extremely user–friendly and uncomplicated and require virtually no special expertise from you.

Hotlink Protection

Protect yourself against bandwidth theft

From our EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel, you’re able to instantly guard all of the pictures within your web sites from being employed any place else without your approval. And you’re able to make it happen with only a few mouse–clicks working with the Hotlink Protection tool.

Everything you should do is in fact choose the domain you want to take care of and then enable the Hotlink Protection. Changes are going to take effect in no time and your photographs are going to be protected from unwanted employment and traffic theft.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Computerized generation of .htaccess files

By making use of the .htaccess file, it’s easy to manage your website – configure redirections, generate security password secured folders, and so on. Through the EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel, you can quickly generate new .htaccess files making use of our highly effective .htaccess Generator.

You don’t have to know anything as related to .htaccess files so as to operate our .htaccess Generator. Merely define the alterations you would like to produce while using the tool’s convenient point and click user interface and it is going to effortlessly produce the needed code on your behalf.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Block malicious IP addresses from your site

Within the EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel we have included a rather effective tool that lets you limit the ways to access your web sites by barring numerous IP addresses. When using the IP blocking tool, it’s possible to halt an IP address or an entire range of IPs from using your website. To determine which IP addresses generate the ’harmful’ website traffic to your website, you can check out the Stats Manager.

All IPs are hindered straight away and nobody will have a way to see or gain access to your site from them any more.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Customize the PHP rules for your site

With all of the cloud hosting packages from EXPRESShostings, you are given the option to choose the PHP version for use on your websites – from aged PHP builds like PHP 4 to the most recent stable releases. You can do that with a mouse–click. All of the adjustments are implemented speedily. For each PHP edition, you can get the php.ini file for your personal web site, so you can absolutely switch the manner PHP works for you.

You will find a structured interface, which enables you to easily customize the most vital PHP settings. Any time, you may also get back to the normal configuration so as to recover a backup.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Set automatic planned jobs

If there’s something that your site or application has got to execute every day, you can automate it by means of a cron job. Cron jobs assist you to create scheduled jobs, that can be done at selected time periods. You could set cron jobs to mail you the reputation of your web site everyday or get rid of momentary files weekly to be able to free disk space as part of your cloud hosting account.

Every single cloud hosting plan is enabled with a specified amount of cron jobs. Supplemental cron jobs can be acquired at any time from the Hosting Control Panel.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Simple way to secure all your files

With the EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel, you will be able to easily guard every single folder with your site, due to our Password Protection instrument. All you must do is pick the directory you wish to secure as well as designate a username as well as a password that only you will know. Your folder and all of its files are going to be guarded immediately.

The password you’ve selected can be kept in a secured method. No one can access it and you’ll be able to change it whenever you wish.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL redirection with merely several clicks

In case at any time you need to redirect your site to a new website, you can do that speedily through the URL Redirection tool included inside the EXPRESShostings Hosting Control Panel. You won’t need to make a distinct .htaccess file and manage complicated lines of code. All that you should perform is pick which domain name to redirect and exactly where you would like it to go to. Our clever system will handle every little thing for you.

And when you no longer need the site redirection that you have set, you can easily revoke it with simply a click of the mouse.

URL Redirection