Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you develop a site, someone else may want to use the images which you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their website, they can simply put links to your site. This way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright issues that can develop or that someone can be trying to deceive people into believing that they're actually on your website. In rare situations, documents and other types of files may also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

Because our Linux cloud web hosting packages include a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than a couple of clicks, even if you do not have much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Additionally, you could also choose if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and shall include the necessary code inside it. All websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed inside the exact same section, so that you can disable this service for any of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that somebody is linking to your files without your consent, you could easily cut them off by activating the hotlink security feature that we offer you. While the regular method of doing that is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which is able to execute this automatically and you shall simply have to pick the Internet site in question and to decide whether our system should create the needed file within the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is part of our custom Hepsia CP and provides exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any issues even if you have never used any website hosting service before. You'll be able to switch off the hotlink protection feature for any website/folder with a mouse click through exactly the same section.