Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you build a website, somebody else may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links straight to your site. In this way, when a visitor opens their website, the images shall be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright problems that can appear or that someone may be trying to trick people into believing that they're actually on your website. In rare occasions, documents and other types of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting
It will not take more than a few mouse clicks to enable the hotlink protection function that we offer you even if this is the 1st web hosting account you use, due to the fact that all our shared website hosting service come with a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our advanced Hepsia CP, so it provides the very same intuitive point-and-click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to secure from a drop-down list. If you'd like to switch on this service only for a particular website folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will appear in this section and you can disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We provide you with an uncomplicated solution to shield your entire content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with several clicks. The usual way to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a number of directives inside it. With the tool that you will find within the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to choose the website which you want to protect and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the essential content in it. You can even use this option for only one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be active, you may deactivate it with a single click from the exact same section of your CP.