Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you build an Internet site, somebody else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their website, they can simply put links directly to your site. In this way, every time a visitor opens their site, the images shall be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright issues which may develop or that someone can be trying to trick people into believing that they are actually on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux web hosting come with a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to secure your content from showing on third-party websites with literally just a couple of clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this kind of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you will just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Additionally, you may also pick if the hotlink protection shall be enabled for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You'll not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will include the required code inside it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed in the same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We provide an effective solution to secure your whole content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you could take full advantage of it with just a few clicks. The usual approach to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to create an .htaccess file and to add a few directives inside it. With the tool which you'll discover inside the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to pick the site that you want to secure and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the required content in it. You can even use this function for only one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be enabled, you can deactivate it with just one click via the same exact section of your Control Panel.