Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you develop a site, somebody else may want to use the images you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their site, they can simply put links straight to your site. That way, when a visitor opens their site, the images shall be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright issues that can present themselves or that someone may be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare instances, documents and other types of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
As our Linux cloud web hosting provide a simple and convenient hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to protect your content from displaying on third-party Internet sites with literally just a couple of mouse clicks, even if you don't have a lot of experience with such matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting CP and when you open it, you will 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 have to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the desired location and will add the needed code within it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside the very same section, so that you can disable this service for each of them with a click.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that another person is linking to your files without your consent, you may easily cut them off by enabling the hotlink protection feature which we provide. While the common way to do this is to set up an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that can easily perform this automatically and you will only need to select the Internet site in question and to decide whether our system should generate the needed file within the primary folder or within a subfolder. The tool is an element of our custom Hepsia CP and offers the exact same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it with no complications even in case you have never used any hosting service before. You could turn off the hotlink security function for any website/folder with a click through the exact same section.