Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you create a site, somebody else may want to use the images that you have and instead of downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links directly to your Internet site. That way, when a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems that may develop or that somebody may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other kinds of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you may activate hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

Because our cloud hosting plans include a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to protect your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just 2 clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you will only need to choose the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Additionally, you may also pick if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and will add the required code in it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed in exactly the same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We provide an effective solution to shield your whole content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with just a few mouse clicks. The common approach to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives inside it. With the tool that you'll discover inside the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to choose the website which you intend to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the essential content in it. You can also use this function for only one folder rather than the whole website - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be switched on, you can disable it with a single click through the same exact section of your Control Panel.