Hotlinking is a term which identifies the inclusion of images on a given website through direct links. When you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wants to include a couple of images from your website, they could either save the images and then include them on their site or they may simply place links on their Internet site to the images on yours. As a result, whenever a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, since the images will load straight from your hosting account. This approach is sometimes used for documents and other sorts of files as well. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you are able to limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Hosting

It won't require more than a number of clicks to switch on the hotlink protection function which we offer you even if this is the first web hosting account which you use, as all of our Linux hosting services feature a rather simple and user-friendly tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our revolutionary Hepsia CP, so it has the same easy-to-use point & click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply need to choose the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you would like to switch on this feature only for a specific site folder, you've got the option to do that. All Internet sites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear within this section and you will be able to deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and clicking on the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that another person is linking to your files without your permission, you could easily cut them off by activating the hotlink protection feature which we offer. While the standard method of doing this is to generate an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool which can do this automatically and you will simply have to select the Internet site in question and to decide whether our system should create the required file inside the main folder or within a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and offers the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no complications even in case you have never used any hosting service before. You can switch off the hotlink protection feature for any website/folder with a mouse click through exactly the same section.