Hotlinking is an expression which describes the addition of images on a particular site through direct links. In case you have website A, for example, and somebody creates website B and wishes to include a few images from your Internet site, they're able to either save the images and then add them on their Internet site or they could simply put links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Thus, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own Internet site A, because the images shall load directly from your hosting account. This method is typically used for documents and other types of files as well. If you would like 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 websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Hosting

You can easily shield your content if you generate an .htaccess file in the website’s root folder, but in case that you don't have previous experience, you need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all cloud hosting package deals we offer and can be accessed through the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection may be activated in 2 basic steps - select the domain or subdomain for the site in question, then choose if our system should create the .htaccess file within the primary folder or inside a subfolder and you shall be all set. You don't require any coding expertise or any experience with this sort of matters, because there shall be nothing else to do. If you wish to disable the protection at some point, you could see all of the websites which are protected inside 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 uncomplicated solution to shield your content and even if you aren't quite tech-savvy, you could take advantage of it with a couple of mouse clicks. The standard way for you to activate server-side hotlink protection is to create an .htaccess file and to include a few directives within it. With the tool that you'll discover within the Hepsia CP, supplied with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll simply need to pick the website which you need to secure and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, including all of the necessary content inside it. You can even use this function for only one folder rather than the entire site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer want the hotlink protection to be active, you'll be able to disable it with just one mouse click from the very same section of your CP.