Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you build a website, someone else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their site, they can simply put links directly to your website. In this way, whenever a visitor opens their website, the images shall be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright issues which could develop or that somebody could be trying to trick people into believing that they are actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting

It shall not require more than several clicks to activate the hotlink security feature we offer you even if this is the 1st hosting account that you use, as all our Linux cloud web hosting packages include a simple and user-friendly tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is part of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the exact same easy-to-use point & click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain that you would like to secure from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this feature only for a certain Internet site folder, you will have the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you can disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given site and clicking on the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that somebody is linking to your files without your authorization, you may easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink protection function that we offer. While the conventional technique of doing this is to create an .htaccess file, we have got a special tool which can perform this automatically and you'll simply have to pick the Internet site in question and to decide whether our system should set up the required file in the main folder or within a subfolder. The tool is part of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and features the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any difficulties even if you have never used any web hosting service before. You can turn off the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a mouse click from the exact same section.