Hotlinking is an expression that represents the inclusion of images on a given website using direct links. When you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wishes to add a few images from your website, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their site or they could simply place links on their website to the images on yours. As a result, every time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, since the images shall load straight from your web hosting account. This technique is oftentimes used for documents and other types of files too. If you wish 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 capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Since our Linux shared hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to shield your content from appearing on third-party sites with literally just two clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this type of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you'll only have to select the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. In addition, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You won't need to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the desired location and will include the necessary code in it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the exact same section, so you can disable this service for any of them with a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers a simple solution to secure your entire content and even if you aren't quite tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with several clicks. The standard way for you to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives in it. With the tool which you'll discover within the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to select the website which you would like to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the needed content inside it. You may also use this option for only one folder instead of the whole Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer need the hotlink protection to be switched on, you could disable it with a single mouse click from the same section of your Control Panel.