Hotlinking is a largely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you build a site, someone else may want to use the images that you have and instead of downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own website, they could simply put links to your site. In this way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images shall be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which could arise or that somebody may be trying to trick people into believing that they're in fact on your site. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files may also be linked in the exact same way. To stop this from happening and to avoid such situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your Internet site.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

It will not require more than several clicks to activate the hotlink protection feature that we offer you even if this is the 1st hosting account which you use, due to the fact that all of our cloud hosting plans include a quite simple and user-friendly tool that will enable you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our revolutionary Hepsia CP, so it provides the very same easy-to-use point & click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and go to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll simply need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect from a drop-down list. If you'd like to enable this service only for a particular site folder, you will have the option to do that. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will appear in this section and you can easily disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given Internet site and pressing the Delete button.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you open a semi-dedicated server account and you learn that another person is linking to your files without your approval, you could easily cut them off by switching on the hotlink protection function that we offer you. While the typical technique of doing this is to create an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that is able to execute this automatically and you'll simply have to choose the Internet site in question and to decide whether our system should create the necessary file within the main folder or inside a subfolder. The tool is a component of our customized Hepsia CP and has the exact same user-friendly interface, so you'll be able to use it without any issues even if you have never used any web hosting service before. You'll be able to switch off the hotlink security feature for any website/folder with a mouse click from exactly the same section.