Hotlinking is a term which describes the addition of images on a given website using direct links. When you have website A, for example, and somebody creates website B and wants to include a few images from your site, they're able to either save the images and then include them on their site or they could simply place links on their site to the images on yours. As a result, whenever a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, since the images shall load directly from your hosting account. This approach is typically used for documents and other types of files also. If you wish to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you could limit their capability to use direct links to your files on their sites.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting
It won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks to switch on the hotlink protection function which we offer you even if this is the first website hosting account which you use, as all our Linux shared web hosting packages come with a very simple and easy to work with tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it offers the same exact intuitive point-and-click interface. As soon as you log in to your account’s back office and visit the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply have to pick the domain or subdomain that you'd like to secure from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this feature only for a certain site folder, you've got the option to do that. All websites with active hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We offer an effective solution to protect your entire content and even if you aren't very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a couple of clicks. The usual way to turn on server-side hotlink security is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a couple of directives inside it. With the tool which you'll find inside the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will simply need to pick the Internet site that you want to protect and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the needed content within it. You could also use this option for only one folder as opposed to the whole website - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file needs to be set up. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be active, you'll be able to disable it with one click from the same exact section of your CP.