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# Zone Overview

The **Zones** page in smoxy provides a central place to manage and monitor the configuration, performance, and status of your zones. Each **zone** groups a set of hostnames under a unified set of proxy, caching, optimization, and security settings. This page lets you view all your configured zones and jump into any of them.

## Viewing and Managing Zones

The **Zones** page lists every zone you've set up in smoxy. Summary metrics at the top give you an at-a-glance view across all zones:

* **Active Zones:** How many of your zones are currently enabled.
* **Total Requests:** Requests handled across your zones over the past 7 days.
* **Cache Hits:** Cache hits for images and HTML over the past 7 days.
* **Threats Mitigated:** Requests blocked by security over the past 7 days.

For each zone in the list you'll see key information such as:

* **Name:** The name of the zone.
* **Tag:** A label - Production, Staging, or Development - to help categorize your environments.
* **Total Requests** and **Cache Hits:** Per-zone traffic and caching effectiveness over the past week.

Use the search box to filter zones by name, hostname, or ID, and the tag filter to narrow the list to a single environment.

### Creating and Duplicating Zones

Create a new zone with **New zone**. To reuse an existing configuration as a starting point, use **Duplicate** on a zone - smoxy copies its settings into a new zone, which takes a few moments to complete.

### Opening a Zone

Selecting a zone opens its dedicated settings area, with a sidebar for everything that applies to that zone - **Dashboard**, **Hostnames**, **Proxy**, **Cache**, **Optimization**, **Custom Pages**, **Rules**, and the **Security** tools. The Dashboard provides in-depth information on traffic, cache efficiency, and threats, giving you a clearer understanding of how the zone is handling traffic and where improvements can be made.

### Enabling and Disabling a Zone

A zone can be enabled or disabled. Disabling a zone turns off caching, image optimization, and bot/threat protection for every hostname in it - traffic still passes through, and rules and Basic Auth continue to apply. You can re-enable a zone at any time.

### Managing Hostnames

The hostnames served by a zone are managed on the zone's **Hostnames** page, where you can add hostnames, point their CNAME at smoxy, enable or disable CDN per hostname, move a hostname to a different zone, or convert it to a redirect.