Hotlinking is a term which describes the addition of images on a given site through the use of direct links. In case you have website A, for instance, and someone creates site B and wants to add a couple of images from your website, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their Internet site or they can simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Thus, whenever a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, because the images shall load from your web hosting account. This technique is sometimes used for documents and other kinds of files as well. If you wish to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you can restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Because our shared plans feature a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you will be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally just 2 clicks, even if you do not have much experience with such matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you'll only have to choose the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. Furthermore, you may also select if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You'll not need to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically within the needed location and shall include the needed code in it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed inside exactly the same section, so you can disable this service for any of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that someone is linking to your files without your permission, you can easily cut them off by activating the hotlink protection function which we offer you. While the regular technique of doing this is to set up an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can easily execute this automatically and you shall only have to pick the Internet site in question and to choose whether our system should generate the necessary file in the main folder or in a subfolder. The tool is part of our customized Hepsia CP and offers exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any issues even when you have never used any hosting service before. You are able to disable the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a click from the exact same section.