Shared Hosting: Managing Your Hosting

Chris Wright
Published: 23 July 2024Last updated: 30 September 2024
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You can select the Hosting Package through the menus and shortcuts on the My20i home screen, or from Manage Server > Overview > Manage.

On this ‘service overview’ page, you can manage all aspects of an individual hosting package and website

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

  • Edge Caching: Speed up your site for your users wherever they are in the world. Here you can control how your site is content is cached, and purged the cache if necessary
  • Website Optimisation: Optimise the speed of loading your site’s content - see below
  • Block Visitors: Block users for your site by country or IP address
  • Statistics: See detailed CDN performance statistics - useful for debugging problems
  • Traffic Distribution: View a map and stats of where the CDN traffic is coming from, globally
  • Security Headers: Manage Security Headers in order to control how CDN can be accessed

Website Acceleration Suite

20i’s CDN powers-up your websites through our Website Acceleration Suite. 

The module improves website load times by automatically implementing web performance best practices. This includes optimising images, JavaScript minification and combining CSS – all to improve website load times and Google PageSpeed Scores. This in turn positively impacts search rankings and helps you develop high-performing websites at scale. 

You’ll be able to select the 'One Click Optimisation' option to add the recommended settings, or experiment with the advanced options to achieve the fastest performance.

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Web Files

  • File Manager: Manages website files and folders.
  • FTP Accounts: Gives FTP access to others.
  • Backup/Restore: Creates and downloads website backups.
  • Timeline Backups: Accesses daily backups.
  • Web Builder: Get started building your website quickly and easily using our Web Builder tool.
  • File Permissions Checker: Easily correct, view and fix file permission issues which do not match our recommended settings.
  • Git Version Control: Simplifies collaborative web development

Email

  • Email Accounts: Creates and manages mailboxes.
  • Email Forwarders: Sets rules for forwarding emails.
  • Catch-All Forwarders: Configure how you forward emails sent to an address that does not exist within your domain.
  • Autoresponders: Sets up automatic email responses.
  • Send-only/Receive-only Addresses: Manages specific email sending/receiving permissions.
  • Junk Mail Filters: Controls junk email filtering.
  • Webmail: Access your emails directly from this interface.
  • Email Summary: View a summary of all email accounts, forwarders and autoresponders configured on this package.
  • Email Migration: Easily migrate your email from one provider to another.
  • Domainkeys (DKIM): Improves email deliverability.
  • DMARC Wizard: Enter details for DMARC Policy you want to use for your incoming messages

Web Tools

  • phpMyAdmin: Manages MySQL databases.
  • MySQL Databases: Add and manage Databases and Users.
  • Remote SQL Access:  Allows remote database access.
  • Change PHP Version: Switch between the available versions of PHP for better compatibility.
  • PHP Configuration: Changes PHP settings to optimally configure performance and functionality.
  • Scheduled Tasks: Run scripts and tasks at times you specific.
  • Redirects: Configure permanent or temporary website redirects.
  • Sitemap Generator: Create an XML sitemap of pages that are accessible for the benefit of search engine bots that crawl your website.
  • Custom Errors: Control what your users see instead of a generic error message in the event of 4xx or 5xx HTTP status codes.
  • Auto Diagnostics: Check for common misconfiguration issues or errors.
  • Maintenance Mode: Enable/disable maintenance mode for your sites.

Domain Names

  • Domains: Manage your domains
  • Subdomains: Add and manage your subdomains.
  • Manage DNS: Edit, add and reset DNS records.

Security

  • SSH Access: Manages public keys for SSH.
  • Hotlink Protection: Prevents bandwidth theft.
  • SSL/TLS: Install and manage your SSL/TLS certificates.
  • Password Protection: Assign passwords to any directories within your website.
  • Directory Indexing: Controls directory indexing.
  • Malware Scan: View results of our advanced malware scanner

Logs & Stats

  • AWStats: View in-depth site usage statistics.
  • Webalizer: View simple site useage statistics
  • Access/Error Logs: Views and downloads logs.
  • Bandwidth Usage: View the bandwidth and hit statistics taken directly from our load balancers
  • Mail Logs: Select a mailbox and view the logs 

One-click installs

From here you can install dozens of free open source applications. They include content management systems (such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!), ecommerce systems (such as OpenCart, Magento and PrestaShop), and much more. 

Our one-click installs are quick and easy to set up, and cover everything from invoicing solutions to project management software.

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