We have made a great number of Advanced Resources available to you completely free using our Wide Open Host Web Control Panel! They are intended for web–developers or, perhaps for online marketers who want to control their hosting environment themselves. You can quickly generate an .htaccess file, replace the PHP build for one’s website hosting account, alter the php.ini file, configure a number of automatic chores and scripts, and much more!

All of the Advanced Resources follow the design pattern of our Web Control Panel, which makes them quite convenient.

Hotlink Protection

Defend yourself from traffic theft

When you create genuine content material there will always be somebody who will try to get hold of it without having your approval. It is true both to textual content along with photos. That’s where the Hotlink Protection tool included in the Web Control Panel will really assist you. With merely a click of the mouse, you’ll defend all pictures on your website by blocking other websites from backlinking to them.

This way, not only will you put a stop to people from using your photos, but you’ll also ensure that you stick to your monthly data traffic limit.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Computerized generation of .htaccess files

By using the .htaccess file, it’s easy to control your web site – set redirections, create username and password secured folders, and so much more. From the Wide Open Host Web Control Panel, you can quickly make new .htaccess files applying the highly effective .htaccess Generator.

You don’t have to know a single thing concerning .htaccess files to use the .htaccess Generator. Just define the adjustments you intend to make employing the tool’s easy point–and–click interface and it will immediately create the necessary code on your behalf.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Block out malicious IPs from accessing your site

In the Wide Open Host Web Control Panel we’ve integrated a highly helpful tool that allows you to reduce the ability to access your sites by stopping different IP addresses. When using the IP blocking tool, you can actually prevent an IP address or even an entire range of IP addresses from being able to access your site. To determine what IP addresses create the ’undesirable’ traffic to your web site, you should check out the Stats Manager.

All IPs are blacklisted right away and no one will have the ability to find or access your web site from them any more.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Modify the PHP rules for your site

The Wide Open Host Web Control Panel provides you the possibility to speedily alter the PHP release for your personal web hosting account. You can actually pick from various earlier PHP releases up to the most recent stable PHP launch. We’ve generated a straightforward interface that enables you to alter the PHP release as frequently as you wish. And the version you’ll have picked out will be implemented at once.

Regardless which PHP build you select, additionally, you will have control on the php.ini file – the PHP configuration file for your account. You can quickly alter some of the more common options, change the full php.ini file or instantly return all adjusts and set things to their standard state.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Develop automatic scheduled jobs

Inside the Wide Open Host Web Control Panel, we have created an effortless and user–friendly interface for establishing new and also handling already present cron jobs – the Cronjob Manager. A cron job is known as a scheduled job – ordinarily a script, which is operated at pre–set intervals of time. It may be a basic script for looking at when your web site is online, a mailing script, a site overall performance review, etcetera.

You can configure and employ cron jobs with all of our cloud hosting packs. If you happen to demand extra cron jobs, you can always acquire further as an upgrade.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Simple way to guard your data

Password protection is an approach to secure your site using a password making sure that just particular account holders can access it. For example, you’ll most likely need username and password protection if you design your site and do not want the search engines or other people to see it before it is available or whenever you want to create a private folder within your web site with authorized entry.The Password Protection instrument bundled within the Wide Open Host Web Control Panel will help you achieve that with simply a few clicks. You will be the only person to know the username and password needed to log in unless you share them with somebody else.

The security password will be saved in an encrypted file format, so not one person should be able to see it or check it out. You alone, as the site owner are going to be capable to modify it.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL redirection with merely several mouse–clicks

If you’d like to easily reroute your web site to another web page or another web site, this can be done with the URL Redirection tool. It eliminates the requirement to develop PHP redirects or configure an .htaccess file. Simply select the location you want to point your website to and the tool will handle everything else. Your domain will be redirected rapidly.

And when you have to terminate the redirection and also have your web site directed back to the initial URL, you can do so with a click of your computer mouse.

URL Redirection