Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you create an Internet site, someone else may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their site, they can simply put links straight to your site. That way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright problems that can present themselves or that someone may be trying to trick people into believing that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting
Due to the fact that our Linux shared web hosting packages include a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally just a couple of clicks, even if you do not have a lot of experience with this kind of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and once you open it, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. In addition, you may also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, as our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and will add the needed code within it. All sites with active hotlink protection shall be listed within the exact same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide a simple solution to protect your entire content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The conventional technique to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a few directives inside it. With the tool that you'll discover in the Hepsia CP, provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to pick the site which you intend to protect and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the necessary content within it. You can also use this function for just one folder instead of the entire site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be switched on, you'll be able to deactivate it with a single mouse click through the very same section of your CP.