What is an Account?

In smoxy, an Account is the central hub where you manage all the features and services smoxy offers. Whether you want to optimize website performance, enhance security, or manage traffic, everything starts with an account.

When you sign up with smoxy, the first thing you’ll do is create an account name—this step is required before you can access any features or configure anything. You’ll be asked to choose an account name, which does not have to be your company’s legal name. It can be anything that helps you easily identify your workspace in smoxy.

Why Do You Need an Account?

An account in smoxy is essentially where all resources, settings, and team members are managed. It’s designed to help you bring together everything you need to improve the performance, security, and traffic management of your websites and applications.

Here’s what an account allows you to do:

  • Invite Team Members: You can invite others to collaborate within your account. Each member can have different roles and permissions, such as administrators, developers, or viewers. This role-based access ensures that team members only interact with the features they need.

  • Subscribe to smoxy Features: smoxy offers powerful features designed to boost website performance and security, including:

    • HTML Caching: Improve page load times by caching your website content closer to your users.

    • Image Optimization: Automatically optimize and compress images to reduce bandwidth and improve load times.

    • Intelligent Bot Protection: Protect your website from malicious bots and automated attacks with advanced security features.

    • Load Balancing: Distribute traffic efficiently across multiple servers for high availability and reliability.

    • DNS Management: Manage DNS zones and records with ease to control how traffic is routed to your domains.

  • Manage Resources: Once your account is set up, you can configure various resources, such as:

    • Domains: Manage your website domains, including DNS settings and traffic routing.

    • Origins: Define server endpoints where traffic is directed.

    • Load Balancers: Set up traffic distribution between multiple origins to ensure balanced and consistent performance.

    • Sites: Manage different sites under your account, each with its own configuration for caching, security, and traffic management.

Key Benefits of Using Accounts in smoxy

  1. Centralized Control: The account is the main place where you manage everything related to your websites. From configuring origins and load balancers to applying caching, DNS management, and security features, everything is handled within your organization, keeping things simple and efficient.

  2. Flexibility for Growth: As your online presence grows, your account in smoxy can scale with you. Add more domains, origins, and sites without having to recreate settings or configurations from scratch.

  3. Collaborative Setup: Easily invite team members and assign them roles within your account. Whether you’re working with developers, marketers, or IT personnel, each member can have access to the specific tools they need to perform their tasks.

  4. Customizable Features: You can subscribe to and configure the features that suit your needs, whether that’s improving load times with caching, securing your site from bots, managing DNS settings, or routing traffic with load balancers.

  5. User-Defined Account Name: When creating your account, you can choose any name that makes sense to you—it doesn’t have to be your company’s legal name. This gives you flexibility in how you manage and identify your workspace in smoxy.

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