Hotlinking is a term that describes the inclusion of images on a particular site through the use of direct links. In case you have site A, for instance, and somebody creates site B and wants to add a number of images from your Internet site, they are able to either save the images and then add them on their site or they could simply put links on their website to the images on yours. Consequently, every time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, because the images shall load straight from your website hosting account. This method is typically used for documents and other sorts of files also. If you'd like to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Because our Linux shared website hosting provide a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to defend your content from showing on third-party sites with literally no more than 2 clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with this sort of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you will only need to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Furthermore, you may also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, because our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the desired location and will add the necessary code within it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside exactly the same section, so you can disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that someone is linking to your files without your approval, you could easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink protection feature that we provide. While the regular technique of doing this is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which can easily do this automatically and you shall only have to choose the website in question and to determine whether our system should set up the needed file within the primary folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and provides exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no problems even in case you have never used any website hosting service before. You can disable the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a mouse click through exactly the same section.