Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you create a website, another person 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 could simply put links directly to your site. This way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright issues that can develop or that someone could be trying to trick people into believing that they're actually on your Internet site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you could permit hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting

There is a way to avoid the hotlinking of your images via an .htaccess file inside the website’s root directory, but if you are not very tech-savvy, we also provide a very easy-to-work-with tool that shall permit you to enable the protection with just a few mouse clicks and without typing any code. The tool could be accessed through the Hepsia Control Panel, offered with all our Linux shared web hosting services and the only 2 things that you will have to pick are a domain/subdomain from a drop-down menu and whether the protection has to be enabled for the main Internet site folder or for some subfolder. Our system shall do the rest, so you won't need to do anything else personally on your end. If you wish to deactivate the hotlink protection option sometime, you'll just have to go back to exactly the same section, to mark the checkbox beside it and to press the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers an effective solution to shield your entire content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The standard way to enable server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives inside it. With the tool which you'll discover inside the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to choose the site which you would like to protect and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the essential content within it. You may also use this feature for only one folder as opposed to the entire site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be set up. If you no longer want the hotlink protection to be active, you could deactivate it with just one mouse click via the very same section of your CP.