Hotlinking is an expression which describes the addition of images on a particular Internet site using direct links. In case you have website A, for instance, and somebody creates website B and wants to add a few images from your site, they are able to either save the images and then add them on their website or they could simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Subsequently, whenever a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, as the images shall load from your website hosting account. This method is typically used for documents and other sorts of files as well. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
It will not require more than a few mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink security feature which we offer you even if this is the 1st website hosting account that you use, because all our shared packages feature a quite simple and easy-to-use tool that will allow you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is part of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it offers the very same intuitive point-and-click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to pick the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you wish to enable this feature only for a particular site folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you can easily deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that someone is linking to your files without your approval, you may easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink security function that we provide. While the regular way to do that is to set up an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can easily execute this automatically and you will only have to choose the website in question and to choose whether our system should create the required file within the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is part of our custom Hepsia CP and has the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any difficulties even when you have never used any website hosting service before. You are able to turn off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a click from exactly the same section.