Hotlinking is an expression that describes the addition of images on a given site through the use of direct links. If you have website A, for instance, and someone creates website B and wants to include a number of images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then include them on their site or they could simply put links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, each time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, as the images shall load straight from your hosting account. This method is sometimes used for documents and other types of files too. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own website hosting account’s resources, you are able to limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting
Due to the fact that our shared hosting provide a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from appearing on third-party websites with literally only 2 clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this type of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting CP and once you open it, you'll just need to select the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Additionally, you may also pick if the hotlink protection shall be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and will include the required code within it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection shall be listed inside the same section, so you can easily disable this service for each of them with just a mouse click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer a simple solution to shield your whole content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with a few mouse clicks. The standard technique to activate server-side hotlink security is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives within it. With the tool that you'll discover in the Hepsia Control Panel, supplied with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only have to choose the website that you want to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the necessary content within it. You may also use this feature for only one folder instead of the whole site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be enabled, you could deactivate it with a single click via the very same section of your Control Panel.