Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet expression for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you build a site, some other person may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own site, they can simply put links to your site. In this way, every time a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, thus stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright issues which could arise or that someone could be trying to deceive people into thinking that they're in fact on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
It shall not require more than a couple of clicks to activate the hotlink security function which we provide even if this is the 1st hosting account you use, as all of our cloud plans feature a simple and user-friendly tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia CP, so it offers the same exact intuitive point & click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you will only have to select the domain or subdomain that you want to protect from a drop-down list. If you wish to activate this feature only for a certain site folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection shall appear in this section and you can easily deactivate the service by selecting the checkbox alongside the given site and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer an uncomplicated solution to secure your content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with just a few clicks. The standard way for you to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to create an .htaccess file and to include a number of directives in it. With the tool which you will find inside the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to pick the Internet site that you would like to protect and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the needed content within it. You may also use this function for only one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be switched on, you could disable it with a single click through the same section of your CP.