{"id":3988,"date":"2026-04-08T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/can-i-have-root-access-on-a-managed-cloud-server\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:37","slug":"can-i-have-root-access-on-a-managed-cloud-server","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/can-i-have-root-access-on-a-managed-cloud-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Have Root Access on a Managed Cloud Server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Root access gives full administrative control of a server. On a managed cloud server, this level of access is normally handled by 4UHosting as part of the managed service.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a root-level change, please contact support and tell us what you need. We can review the request and make the change where it is suitable for the server and service.<\/p>\n<p>This approach helps keep the server stable, secure and supportable. It also means we can keep track of important configuration changes.<\/p>\n<p>If you specifically need full root access, please speak to us before ordering or changing service. We can advise whether a managed cloud server is the right fit or whether a different setup would be more suitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Root access gives full administrative control of a server. On a managed cloud server, this level of access is normally handled by 4UHosting as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-3988","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3988\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}