Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you build an Internet site, some other person may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their website, they may simply put links to your Internet site. This way, when a visitor opens their site, the images shall be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which may arise or that someone may be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other types of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

Because our Linux cloud website hosting service feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to defend your content from showing on third-party websites with literally no more than 2 mouse clicks, even if you do not have much experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Additionally, you can also choose if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You won't need 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 necessary code in it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed within the same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that somebody is linking to your files without your authorization, you could easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink protection function that we offer you. While the regular technique of doing this is to generate an .htaccess file, we have got a special tool that is able to execute this automatically and you will only have to select the website in question and to choose whether our system should set up the needed file inside the primary folder or in a subfolder. The tool is part of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and provides exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without complications even in case you have never used any website hosting service before. You are able to switch off the hotlink security function for any website/folder with a click through exactly the same section.