Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop a website, some other person 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 directly to your website. In this way, each time a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which may appear or that someone can be trying to deceive people into believing 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 prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

As our cloud web hosting provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than two mouse clicks, even if you do not have a lot of experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Additionally, you could also choose if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, as our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and will add the required code inside it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the very same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that another person is linking to your files without your authorization, you could easily cut them off by activating the hotlink security function we offer you. While the conventional way to do that is to generate an .htaccess file, we have got a special tool that can easily execute this automatically and you'll only have to pick the Internet site in question and to choose whether our system should generate the needed file inside the primary folder or in a subfolder. The tool is an element of our custom Hepsia CP and offers the exact same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without difficulties even in case you have never used any hosting service before. You can turn off the hotlink security function for any website/folder with a click through the same section.