Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you create a site, somebody else may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their website, they can simply put links to your Internet site. This way, each time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright problems which may present themselves or that someone may be trying to trick people into thinking that they are in fact on your site. In rare situations, documents and other types of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

As our Linux shared packages provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to protect your content from showing on third-party websites with literally just a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you will only have to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You'll not need to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will add the needed code inside it. All websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the exact same section, so you can disable this service for any of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers an effective solution to secure your entire content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with just a few clicks. The conventional way for you to enable server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool which you'll discover within the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply have to select the website that you need to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the essential content within it. You can even use this feature for just one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be active, you'll be able to deactivate it with just one click via the same section of your Control Panel.