Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you build an Internet site, another person may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their website, they could simply put links straight to your website. This way, whenever a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright issues that could appear or that someone may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they are in fact on your Internet site. In rare instances, documents and other types of files can also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux cloud web hosting packages provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to shield your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just a couple of mouse clicks, even if you do not have a lot of experience with this sort of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you will just need to select the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. Furthermore, you may also pick if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not need to do anything else, due to the fact that our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and shall include the necessary code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed inside the very same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We provide you with a simple solution to protect your entire content and even if you are not really tech-savvy, you could take full advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The usual way for you to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives within it. With the tool that you'll find in the Hepsia Control Panel, offered with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply have to pick the site which you intend to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the needed content inside it. You may also use this option for just one folder as opposed to the whole Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be switched on, you'll be able to deactivate it with a single click via the same exact section of your Control Panel.