Hotlinking is an expression which refers to the inclusion of images on a particular Internet site via direct links. When you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wishes to add a few images from your site, they could either save the images and then include them on their website or they could simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Consequently, each time a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, because the images will load from your hosting account. This approach is sometimes used for documents and other kinds of files too. If you'd like to prevent third 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 Cloud Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux cloud hosting packages provide a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than 2 clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you will just need to choose the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Optionally, you may also select if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You won't need to do anything else, as our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and shall add the necessary code inside it. All websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the exact same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers an uncomplicated solution to secure your content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with just a few clicks. The usual way to enable server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives inside it. With the tool that you'll find inside the Hepsia CP, provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only need to select the website that you need to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all the necessary content within it. You could also use this feature for only one folder as opposed to the entire site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be set up. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be active, you can disable it with just one click from the same section of your Control Panel.