Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet term for linking to another website’s images. To put it differently, if you develop a website, someone else may want to use the images you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their website, they could simply put links to your site. This way, each time 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 could arise or that somebody may be trying to trick people into thinking that they are in fact on your website. In rare instances, documents and other kinds of files could also be linked in the very same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid such situations, you could activate hotlink protection for your website.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Due to the fact that our Linux shared packages come with a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you will be able to secure your content from appearing on third-party Internet sites with literally only two mouse clicks, even if you don't have much experience with this type of matters. The tool is included with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and when you open it, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain you want to protect. Optionally, you may also select if the hotlink protection will be active for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You shall not have to do anything else, since our system will create an .htaccess file automatically in the preferred location and shall add the needed code in it. All sites with active hotlink protection shall be listed within the very same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our company offers an effective solution to protect your whole content and even if you aren't really tech-savvy, you could take advantage of it with several mouse clicks. The standard technique to activate server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to add a couple of directives within it. With the tool that you'll find in the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only need to choose the website which you want to protect and our system shall set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all the needed content inside it. You can also use this feature for only one folder as opposed to the whole site - you just have to specify where the .htaccess file has to be created. If you no longer require the hotlink protection to be switched on, you could disable it with one click from the same exact section of your CP.