Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you develop an Internet site, someone else may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their Internet site, they can simply put links directly to your website. This way, when a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems that can arise or that somebody can be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other types of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you could enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
It will not take more than several mouse clicks to enable the hotlink security function which we provide even if this is the first hosting account you use, due to the fact that all our shared hosting come with a simple and user-friendly tool that will permit you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is part of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the same exact intuitive point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this service only for a specific site folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you will be able to turn off the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given site and clicking on the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer an effective solution to secure your entire content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with just a few mouse clicks. The conventional technique to turn on server-side hotlink security is to create an .htaccess file and to include a few directives inside it. With the tool that you'll find within the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to choose the Internet site which you want to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the essential content within it. You could also use this option for only one folder instead of the whole Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be switched on, you'll be able to deactivate it with a single click via the very same section of your CP.