Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you create a site, someone else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their website, they may simply put links to your site. This way, whenever a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright problems that could develop or that somebody could be trying to trick people into believing that they are in fact on your Internet site. In rare instances, documents and other types of files can also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you can activate hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Because our shared hosting services feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from showing on third-party Internet sites with literally just two mouse clicks, even if you don't 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 just have to pick the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Furthermore, you may also select if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You'll not have to do anything else, due to the fact that our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the desired location and shall include the needed code in it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside the very same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that someone is linking to your files without your approval, you may easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink security feature which we provide. While the typical way to do this is to generate an .htaccess file, we have a special tool which is able to perform this automatically and you'll simply have to choose the Internet site in question and to determine whether our system should create the needed file inside the primary folder or within a subfolder. The tool is an element of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and offers exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without any complications even in case you have never used any website hosting service before. You may switch off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a click from exactly the same section.