Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you build a website, somebody else may want to use the images which you have and instead of downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their own website, they can simply put links straight to your Internet site. This way, every time a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, in addition to the copyright problems that may present themselves or that somebody may be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the same exact way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid such situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your website.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
Because our Linux web hosting service provide a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just two mouse clicks, even if you don't have much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll just have to select the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Additionally, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You will not have to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the preferred location and shall add the needed code inside it. All websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the exact same section, so you may disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that another person is linking to your files without your permission, you will be able to easily cut them off by activating the hotlink protection feature we provide. While the conventional technique of doing that is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can execute this automatically and you shall simply have to choose the site in question and to decide whether our system should generate the required file within the main folder or in a subfolder. The tool is a component of our custom made Hepsia Control Panel and features the same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it with no problems even if you have never used any website hosting service before. You are able to deactivate the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a click from the exact same section.