Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you create a site, some other person may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own Internet site, they can simply put links to your website. That way, whenever a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, hence stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems which can appear or that someone can be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the very same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your site.

Hotlinking Protection in Hosting

As our hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from appearing on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than two clicks, even if you do not have a lot of experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting CP and as soon as you open it, you will only need to pick the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you may also choose if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You will not need to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and will add the needed code within it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed within the very same section, so you may disable this service for any of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our company offers an effective solution to shield your entire content and even if you are not really tech-savvy, you could take full advantage of it with a couple of mouse clicks. The usual approach to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool which you'll find inside the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to select the website that you want to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the needed content inside it. You may also use this function for only one folder as opposed to the entire site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer need the hotlink security to be active, you can deactivate it with just one click through the same exact section of your CP.