Hotlinking is a term which refers to the addition of images on a particular site by using direct links. If you have website A, for example, and somebody creates website B and wishes to include a couple of images from your site, they are able to either save the images and then include them on their Internet site or they could simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images will load from your website hosting account. This method is sometimes used for documents and other sorts of files also. If you would like to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you are able to restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

It will not require more than a couple of mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink security feature which we offer you even if this is the very first website hosting account which you use, due to the fact that all our Linux shared hosting feature a rather simple and easy-to-use tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it offers the exact same easy-to-use point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply have to select the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you wish to activate this service only for a specific website folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection will appear within this section and you will be able to deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given Internet site and clicking on the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We offer an effective solution to protect your entire content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you can take full advantage of it with a couple of mouse clicks. The usual way to enable server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a few directives within it. With the tool that you'll discover inside the Hepsia Control Panel, provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to pick the website which you intend to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the required content within it. You could also use this function for only one folder as opposed to the whole Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer want the hotlink protection to be active, you could disable it with just one mouse click via the same exact section of your CP.