Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you build an Internet site, another person may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own site, they could simply put links straight to your Internet site. This way, each time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems which can develop or that someone could be trying to trick people into thinking that they are actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other types of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may activate hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Because our Linux shared packages provide a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to protect your content from displaying on third-party websites with literally no more than two mouse clicks, even if you don't have very much experience with this type of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you will only have to pick the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. In addition, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You won't need to do anything else, due to the fact that our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will add the needed code within it. All Internet websites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed inside the very same section, so you can easily disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We provide an effective solution to secure your content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you'll be able to take advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The common way to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a number of directives within it. With the tool which you will find within the Hepsia CP, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only have to select the Internet site that you need to protect and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the necessary content in it. You can even use this feature for just one folder as opposed to the whole site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer want the hotlink protection to be enabled, you'll be able to deactivate it with a single click via the same section of your Control Panel.