Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you develop a website, some other person may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their site, they can simply put links directly to your website. This way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright problems that may arise or that somebody can be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're in fact on your Internet site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
As our Linux shared hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from showing on third-party sites with literally only 2 mouse clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you'll only need to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Furthermore, you could also choose if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not need to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and shall include the required code inside it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed in the exact same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with a click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that someone is linking to your files without your authorization, you will be able to easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink security feature which we offer you. While the conventional way to do this is to generate an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that is able to do this automatically and you will only have to select the site in question and to choose whether our system should generate the required file inside the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and has exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without any difficulties even in case you have never used any web hosting service before. You'll be able to disable the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a mouse click from the same section.