Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. In other words, if you create a website, another person may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your Internet site and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links straight to your Internet site. In this way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, as a result stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, not to mention the copyright problems that can present themselves or that somebody may be trying to deceive people into thinking that they are in fact on your site. In rare situations, documents and other kinds of files can also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you may enable hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Cloud Website Hosting
You can easily shield your content if you set up an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but just in case you do not have previous experience, you need to use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is included with all cloud website hosting package deals which we offer and could be accessed using the in-house built Hepsia CP. The protection may be activated in two simple steps - choose the domain or subdomain for the website in question, then select if our system should create the .htaccess file in the main folder or in a subfolder and you will be good to go. You do not need any coding expertise or any experience with this type of matters, due to the fact that there will be nothing else to do. If you want to remove the protection at some time, you could see all the sites that are protected in the same exact section of the CP with a Delete button next to each of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers
We offer an effective solution to protect your content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you are able to benefit from it with a few clicks. The conventional approach to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a number of directives in it. With the tool that you'll discover inside the Hepsia CP, provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll only need to pick the website that you need to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, including all the required content inside it. You may also use this function for just one folder instead of the whole site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be enabled, you can deactivate it with a single click from the exact same section of your Control Panel.