General Settings

To view a website's general hosting settings, click Hosting Settings below the site's name at Websites & Domains.

Basic Settings

Domain name. The domain name that you register with a domain registrar and will use for this website.

Note

Depending on the hosting provider's policy, you may not be allowed to modify the domain name of the main domain of your subscription. By default, the main domain's name coincides with the subscription's name.
Hosting type. The hosting type (Website, Forwarding, and No hosting) defines the website behavior. By default, all websites belong to the Website hosting type as they are physically hosted on the server.

To change the hosting type, use the Change link.

To suspend the website with all mailboxes and mailing lists hosted under the website's domain name use the Suspend option.

Note

Other basic settings depend on the selected hosting type.
Website status. The website status defines the site's accessibility in browsers and available hosting services. The site can be suspended so it will not open in browsers, and the hosting features of the site can be disabled. Change the status if you want the site to be temporarily unavailable.
Document root. Displayed for domains with the Website hosting type.
Preferred domain. Displayed for domains with the Website hosting type.

SSL/TLS support is enabled by default. It protects your website by encrypting all data transferred to and from the website.
Permanent SEO-safe 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

Note

This option is available only if SSL/TLS support is enabled.

By default, all visitors of your website are automatically redirected from HTTP to HTTPS version of the site using the 301 HTTP status code (permanent redirect). This type of redirect is SEO-safe as the search engines will index only the HTTPS version of the site, and the ranking power will not be lost. When you use this option, ensure that you have a valid SSL/TLS certificate, because browsers cache a site with 301 redirect permanently.
Certificate. To employ SSL/TLS, install an SSL/TLS certificate on the website and select one of the available certificates.

Scripting languages. Specify programming and scripting languages you want the website to support. For PHP, you can also select the custom PHP version and handler type.
Web statistics. Select the web statistics software that you want to use for viewing graphical reports and charts on website visitors. If you want to protect the directory containing the web statistics files with your credentials, select the protection option. Note that unless you select this option, anyone on the Internet will be able to see your web statistics.
Custom error documents. When site visitors request pages that the web server cannot find, the web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message. If you want to create your own error pages and use them on the web server, select the Custom error documents checkbox.