Hotlinking is an expression that identifies the addition of images on a given Internet site by using direct links. If you have site A, for example, and someone creates site B and wants to include a few images from your Internet site, they can either save the images and then include them on their website or they may simply place links on their site to the images on yours. Consequently, when a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images will load straight from your website hosting account. This method is usually used for documents and other sorts of files too. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you are able to restrict their ability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Website Hosting

As our Linux website hosting plans come with a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you'll be able to secure your content from showing on third-party sites with literally just 2 mouse 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 when you open it, you'll only have to pick the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Additionally, you could also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will add the necessary code inside it. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed in the same section, so you could disable this service for each of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We provide an uncomplicated solution to secure your content and even if you aren't quite tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a few mouse clicks. The conventional technique to enable server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives inside it. With the tool that you'll find in the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only have to choose the website which you want to secure and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all the required content within it. You can also use this feature for just one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be active, you can deactivate it with a single mouse click through the very same section of your Control Panel.