Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop an Internet site, someone else may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their site, they could simply put links straight to your site. This way, each time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems which may present themselves or that somebody may be trying to deceive people into believing that they are in fact on your Internet site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the same exact way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this type of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Hosting

Since our Linux hosting packages feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally only a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with such matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you'll just have to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Optionally, you can also choose if the hotlink protection shall be enabled for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You won't have to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the desired location and will include the needed code inside it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed within exactly the same section, so that you can disable this service for each 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 really tech-savvy, you'll be able to take advantage of it with several clicks. The common approach to enable server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives within it. With the tool which you will find in the Hepsia Control Panel, offered with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply need to pick the Internet site which you would like to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all the required content in it. You may also use this feature for just one folder instead of the entire website - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be created. If you no longer need the hotlink security to be switched on, you could deactivate it with a single click through the very same section of your CP.