Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop a website, another person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own site, they may simply put links directly to your Internet site. That way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems which may develop or that somebody can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting
It will not take more than several mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink protection function we offer you even if this is the 1st website hosting account you use, since all our shared website hosting feature a simple and easy-to-use tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our innovative Hepsia CP, so it offers the same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to choose the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you want to switch on this feature only for a specific site folder, you will have the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you can deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We provide an effective solution to secure your content and even if you aren't quite tech-savvy, you can take advantage of it with a couple of mouse clicks. The conventional way for you to enable server-side hotlink protection is to create an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives inside it. With the tool that you'll discover within the Hepsia CP, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only have to choose the Internet site that you want to protect and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the needed content in it. You can also use this option for just one folder rather than the entire site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer want the hotlink protection to be switched on, you could disable it with just one mouse click via the exact same section of your CP.