Hotlinking is a term which represents the addition of images on a particular website through the use of direct links. In case you have site A, for example, and an individual creates site B and wants to add a couple of images from your site, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their website or they may simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, because the images will load straight from your hosting account. This approach is oftentimes used for documents and other sorts of files also. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you can limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

As our shared hosting plans feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to shield your content from appearing on third-party websites with literally no more than a couple of mouse clicks, even if you do not have much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you may also select if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and will include the needed code in it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the exact same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that somebody is linking to your files without your permission, you may easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink security feature we offer you. While the typical technique of doing that is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which can easily do this automatically and you'll simply have to choose the website in question and to decide whether our system should create the necessary file within the primary folder or in a subfolder. The tool is part of our custom made Hepsia Control Panel and features the exact same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without any issues even when you have never used any website hosting service before. You could turn off the hotlink security function for any website/folder with a mouse click from exactly the same section.