Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you build a site, another person may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their site, they may simply put links straight to your site. That way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which can develop or that somebody could be trying to deceive people into believing that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts of files can 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 Hosting
It won't require more than a number of mouse clicks to enable the hotlink protection feature we offer you even if this is the very first web hosting account you use, as all of our hosting come with a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our revolutionary Hepsia CP, so it features the exact same intuitive point-and-click interface. When you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you'd like to enable this function only for a particular website folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear within this section and you could deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given site and clicking on the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer an uncomplicated solution to protect your whole content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with a few clicks. The common way for you to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool that you will find inside the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only have to choose the Internet site which you would like to secure and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the necessary content inside it. You could 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 created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be enabled, you may disable it with a single mouse click through the very same section of your Control Panel.