Hotlinking is an expression which represents the inclusion of images on a particular site through the use of direct links. When you have website A, for example, and somebody creates site B and wishes to include a number of images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then add them on their website or they can simply place links on their site to the images on yours. Subsequently, each time a visitor opens Internet site B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, since the images shall load from your hosting account. This approach is sometimes used for documents and other sorts of files as well. If you would like to prevent 3rd parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux shared website hosting come with a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to defend your content from displaying on third-party websites with literally only a couple of mouse clicks, even if you do not have much experience with this kind of matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you will just need to select the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. In addition, you could also choose if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or exclusively for a subfolder. You will not need to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the needed location and will include the required code within it. All websites with active hotlink protection shall be listed in the very same section, so that you can disable this service for any of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our company offers an effective solution to protect your content and even if you are not quite tech-savvy, you are able to take advantage of it with a couple of mouse clicks. The usual approach to activate server-side hotlink security is to create an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives inside it. With the tool that you will find within the Hepsia CP, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply have to choose the Internet site which you intend to secure and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, adding all the essential content in it. You can also use this feature for just one folder instead of the entire site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be enabled, you may disable it with just one mouse click via the same exact section of your CP.