Hotlinking is a term that refers to the addition of images on a given website through direct links. If you have website A, for example, and someone creates website B and wants to include a number of images from your Internet site, they're able to either save the images and then add them on their Internet site or they could simply put links on their site to the images on yours. Thus, when a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images shall load straight from your web hosting account. This process is usually used for documents and other types of files also. If you'd like to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you could restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting

Since our Linux web hosting services include a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to shield your content from showing on third-party websites with literally just a couple of clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with such matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect. Furthermore, you can also choose if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, since our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and shall include the needed code inside it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed within the very same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We offer an uncomplicated solution to secure your content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you can take advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The common approach to enable server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives in it. With the tool that you will find in the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only have to select the Internet site which you need to secure and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, including all the needed content in it. You can even use this option for just one folder as opposed to the entire site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be enabled, you'll be able to disable it with one click from the exact same section of your CP.