Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you create an Internet site, some other person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their website, they may simply put links to your website. In this way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems that may appear or that someone may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the same exact way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you could permit hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Because our cloud web hosting service include a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally just two clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. Furthermore, you could also select if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You'll not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically in the preferred location and will add the required code inside it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed in the same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We offer a simple solution to protect your content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The conventional way to activate server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a number of directives in it. With the tool which you'll find within the Hepsia Control Panel, offered with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to select the Internet site that you intend to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all the needed content in it. You may also use this function for just one folder rather than the entire site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be set up. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be active, you can disable it with one click from the exact same section of your CP.