Hotlinking is a commonly accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop an Internet 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 Internet site, they can simply put links straight to your Internet site. That way, each time a visitor opens their Internet site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, let alone the copyright issues which could present themselves or that somebody can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your Internet site. In rare instances, documents and other sorts of files may also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you can activate hotlink protection for your Internet site.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting
You can easily shield your content if you create an .htaccess file within the website’s root folder, but in case that you do not have previous experience, you can use our hotlink protection tool. The latter comes with all cloud hosting packages which we offer and can be accessed using the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection can be activated in two basic steps - select the domain or subdomain for the Internet site in question, then pick if our system should set up the .htaccess file in the primary folder or inside a subfolder and you shall be good to go. You do not need any coding capabilities or any experience with such matters, as there will be nothing else to do. If you would like to remove the protection at some time, you could see all of the sites that are protected within the very same section of the Control Panel with a Delete button alongside each of them.
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'll be able to benefit from it with several clicks. The usual way 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'll discover within the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only have to pick the Internet site which you want to protect and our system shall create the .htaccess file for you, including all of the needed content in it. You could also use this function for just one folder as opposed to the entire Internet site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer want the hotlink security to be enabled, you may disable it with one click through the same exact section of your CP.