Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Quite simply, if you build a website, someone else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their website, they may simply put links straight to your site. That way, when a visitor opens their website, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright problems which can present themselves or that somebody can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're actually on your site. In rare instances, documents and other types of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this sort of situations, you can activate hotlink protection for your website.
Hotlinking Protection in Shared Web Hosting
It won't require more than several mouse clicks to enable the hotlink security function we offer even if this is the first website hosting account which you use, due to the fact that all our shared web hosting include a rather simple and user-friendly tool that will permit you to stop direct links to your content. The tool is an element of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the same easy-to-use point & click interface. Once you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you will simply need to select the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect from a drop-down list. If you'd like to activate this feature only for a specific Internet site folder, you've got the option to do that. All sites with enabled hotlink protection will appear within this section and you can disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given Internet site and clicking on the Delete button.
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 activating the hotlink protection feature we offer. While the common method of doing that is to create an .htaccess file, we've got a special tool that can easily do this automatically and you shall only have to pick the website in question and to decide whether our system should create the needed file within the main folder or in a subfolder. The tool is an element of our custom made Hepsia Control Panel and features exactly the same user-friendly interface, so you will be able to use it without any problems even if you have never used any web hosting service before. You are able to turn off the hotlink protection function for any website/folder with a click through the exact same section.