We’ve listed numerous Advanced Tools in the Patrol Bureau Control Panel. These tools will let you do simple tasks for example protecting a folder by using a password or a lot more advanced ones such as, for example, switching the PHP build of your cloud hosting account. Though the jobs they are doing are very different, all the Advanced Tools have 1 similarity. They are really easy–to–navigate and call for no specific expertise from you.

Hotlink Protection

Safeguard yourself from bandwidth theft

Whenever you make unique website content there’s always someone that will attempt to use it devoid of your approval. It pertains both to written text plus graphics. This is where the Hotlink Protection tool included in our Control Panel will truly assist you. With a click, you’ll guard all photographs within your web site by blocking other websites from linking to them.

This way, not only will you prevent other individuals from using your visuals, but you will also ensure that you follow your monthly data traffic limit.

Hotlink Protection

.htaccess generator

Automatic generation of .htaccess files

Integrated in the Patrol Bureau Control Panel one can find .htaccess Generator – an effective tool, which allows you to generate .htaccess files without having to create them by yourself. Our tool calls for zero experience as well as no expertise in .htaccess file supervision.

With an .htaccess file, you can easily redirect a couple of pages of your web site or maybe the entire website to a whole new location. You may as well make use of it to protect a folder with a username and password or to permit PHP code in HTML files, etc.

.htaccess Generator

IP blocking

Block harmful IPs from accessing your website

In the Patrol Bureau Control Panel we’ve built in a particularly effective tool that permits you to restrict ability to access your sites by stopping unique IP addresses. With the IP blocking tool, you can actually stop an IP address or a full array of IPs from opening your web site. To determine which IP addresses create the ’undesirable’ traffic to your web site, you can check out the Stats Manager.

All of the IP addresses will be impeded right away and no–one will be able to find or gain access to your website from them any longer.

IP Blocking

PHP configuration

Alter the PHP rules for one’s web site

With any of the cloud hosting offers from Patrol Bureau, you may choose the PHP release for use on your sites – from aged PHP versions just like PHP 4 to the latest stable releases. It can be done with merely a click of the mouse. All adjustments are carried out promptly. For each PHP edition, you have access to the php.ini file for use on your web site, so you’re able to fully change the way PHP works.

We provide you with a structured user interface, which enables you to quickly modify the most crucial PHP options. At any moment, you can also get back to the normal configuration so as to restore a back up copy.

PHP Configuration

Cron Jobs

Generate automatic planned tasks

Inside the Patrol Bureau Control Panel, we have designed an effortless and user–friendly interface for configuring brand new and handling existing cron jobs – the Cronjob Manager. A cron job is known as a scheduled task – ordinarily a script, which is operated at predetermined intervals of time. It can be a basic script for checking when your website is on the Internet, an emailing script, a site overall performance record, etcetera.

You’ll be able to set and use cron jobs with all of our cloud hosting plans. For those who need further cron jobs, it is easy to obtain further as an upgrade.

Cron jobs

Password Protection

Good way to secure your data files

Password protection is an option to secure your website’s full content employing a username and password to make sure that just pre–specified users have access to it. For instance, you may want password protection if you are in the process of building your site and do not want major search engines or other people to find it prior to it being all set or when you need to generate an exclusive folder within your website with approved access.The Password Protection instrument packaged within the Patrol Bureau Control Panel will help you to achieve that with merely a couple of mouse–clicks. You will be the only one that knows the username and password necessary to log in if you don’t share them with somebody else.

The security password are going to be stored in a protected format, so nobody will be able to see it or read it. You alone, as the webmaster are going to be in a position to adjust it.

Password Protection

URL redirection

URL redirection with only a couple of mouse–clicks

If you’d like to speedily divert your website to a different page or some other site, you can do this using our URL Redirection tool. It eliminates the need to develop PHP redirects or configure an .htaccess file. Just define the location you need to point your web site to and the software instrument will handle what’s left. Your domain will be rerouted blazingly fast.

And, in case you prefer to cease the redirection and have your website directed to the previous URL, this can be done with just a mouse–click.

URL Redirection