Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you develop an Internet site, somebody else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their website, they may simply put links to your Internet site. In this way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently 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 believing that they're in fact on your website. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you may permit hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Website Hosting

It will not require more than a number of clicks to switch on the hotlink protection feature that we offer you even if this is the very first web hosting account which you use, as all of our website hosting services come with a rather simple and easy-to-use tool that will enable you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our revolutionary Hepsia Control Panel, so it has the same exact intuitive point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply need to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you want to activate this function only for a specific website folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with active hotlink protection will appear in this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that someone is linking to your files without your approval, you may easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink security feature we offer you. While the standard technique of doing this is to create an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can do this automatically and you'll only need to select the Internet site in question and to determine whether our system should generate the required file inside the primary folder or in a subfolder. The tool is part of our customized Hepsia Control Panel and provides exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no problems even in case you have never used any website hosting service before. You could switch off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a mouse click from exactly the same section.