Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you create a site, someone else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your site and then uploading them to their Internet site, they may simply put links straight to your website. That way, when a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems which can arise or that someone may be trying to deceive people into believing that they're actually on your site. In rare situations, documents and other sorts 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 activate hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
Since our web hosting feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to shield your content from appearing on third-party Internet sites with literally no more than a couple of clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain which you want to protect. Furthermore, you could also pick 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, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and shall add the needed code inside it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside the same section, so you could disable this service for each of them with just a click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We provide an effective solution to shield your whole content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The common technique to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool which you will find inside the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply need to pick the site that you need to protect and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, including all the needed content within it. You can also use this feature for only one folder instead of the entire Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be switched on, you may deactivate it with just one mouse click from the same exact section of your CP.