Hotlinking is a term that identifies the addition of images on a particular site using direct links. If you have site A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wishes to include a couple of images from your Internet site, they could either save the images and then include them on their site or they could simply place links on their site to the images on yours. Consequently, each time a visitor opens site B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, since the images will load directly from your hosting account. This process is oftentimes used for documents and other kinds of files as well. If you want to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own web hosting account’s resources, you'll be able to restrict their capability to use direct links to your files on their Internet sites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Hosting

Since our shared packages come with a simple and practical hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from displaying on third-party sites with literally only a couple of mouse clicks, even if you do not have very much experience with this sort of matters. The tool is available in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and as soon as you open it, you'll just need to choose the domain or subdomain that you want to protect. Furthermore, you may also choose if the hotlink protection will be enabled for the default domain root folder or just for a subfolder. You'll not have to do anything else, because our system will create an .htaccess file automatically inside the preferred location and will include the needed code within it. All Internet websites with active hotlink protection will be listed inside exactly the same section, so you could disable this service for any of them with just a click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you create a semi-dedicated server account and you find out that somebody is linking to your files without your approval, you could easily cut them off by activating the hotlink protection feature which we provide. While the regular way to do that is to generate an .htaccess file, we have a special tool that is able to execute this automatically and you will only need to pick the website in question and to determine whether our system should generate the needed file within the primary 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 will be able to use it without any difficulties even if you have never used any hosting service before. You can disable the hotlink protection feature for any website/folder with a mouse click through the same section.