Hotlinking is an expression which describes the addition of images on a given website through the use of direct links. In case you have site A, for example, and an individual creates website B and wishes to add a couple of images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then add them on their Internet site or they may simply put links on their website to the images on yours. As a result, every time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images shall load from your hosting account. This process is typically used for documents and other kinds of files also. If you wish to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you could limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It will not require more than a couple of clicks to enable the hotlink security feature which we provide even if this is the first hosting account which you use, due to the fact that all our cloud packages include a simple and easy to work with tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our advanced Hepsia CP, so it has the very same intuitive point-and-click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain that you want to secure from a drop-down list. If you'd like to enable this service only for a particular Internet site folder, you will have the option to do that. All Internet sites with active hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you will be able to disable the service by selecting the checkbox beside the given website and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you start a semi-dedicated server account and you discover that another person is linking to your files without your consent, you will be able to easily cut them off by activating the hotlink protection function that we offer. While the conventional way to do that is to create an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can easily execute this automatically and you shall simply have to select the Internet site in question and to choose whether our system should generate the necessary file inside the primary folder or within a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and features the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no problems even when you have never used any website hosting service before. You may deactivate the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a mouse click through exactly the same section.