Hotlinking is a term which represents the addition of images on a given Internet site through direct links. In case you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wishes to include a few images from your site, they could either save the images and then add them on their Internet site or they may simply place links on their website to the images on yours. Thus, every time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, because the images will load straight from your hosting account. This technique is usually used for documents and other types of files too. If you would like 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 ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It will not take more than a couple of mouse clicks to enable the hotlink protection function that we offer you even if this is the very first hosting account you use, due to the fact that all of our cloud service come with a quite simple and easy to work with tool that will permit you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel, so it features the very same easy-to-use point & click interface. When 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 would like to enable this function only for a specific site folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection will appear within this section and you can easily disable the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We offer an uncomplicated solution to protect your content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you could take full advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The standard way for you to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives in it. With the tool that you'll discover in the Hepsia CP, provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to select the site that you would like to protect and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all the needed content in it. You may also use this function for only one folder as opposed to the whole website - you just have 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 from the very same section of your Control Panel.