Hotlinking is a term which represents the inclusion of images on a particular site through the use of direct links. If you have website A, for instance, and a person creates website B and wishes to add a few images from your website, they can either save the images and then add them on their website or they can simply place links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Thus, every time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images will load from your web hosting account. This approach is oftentimes used for documents and other sorts of files as well. If you want to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you could limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

As our Linux cloud hosting services include a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally just two clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you may also choose if the hotlink protection shall be enabled for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, since our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically in the needed location and will include the necessary code inside it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the very same section, so that you can disable this service for any of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers an effective solution to secure your whole content and even if you aren't quite tech-savvy, you'll be able to benefit from it with just a few clicks. The standard way to activate server-side hotlink protection is to create an .htaccess file and to include a number of directives inside it. With the tool which you will find inside the Hepsia CP, offered with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply have to choose the website that you would like to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the essential content inside it. You could also use this feature for only one folder as opposed to the whole Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be enabled, you could disable it with a single click from the same section of your CP.