Hotlinking is a term which describes the addition of images on a particular site through direct links. In case you have website A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wants to include a number of images from your website, they are able to either save the images and then add them on their website or they can simply place links on their Internet site to the images on yours. Subsequently, every time a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own site A, as the images shall load directly from your hosting account. This approach is typically used for documents and other types of files too. If you want to prevent 3rd 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 websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Shared Website Hosting

Due to the fact that our shared website hosting come with a simple and handy hotlink protection tool, you shall be able to secure your content from showing on third-party sites with literally no more than 2 mouse clicks, even if you do not have much experience with such matters. The tool comes with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and once you open it, you'll only need to pick the domain or subdomain that you'd like to protect. Additionally, you may also select if the hotlink protection shall be enabled for the default domain root folder or only for a subfolder. You shall not need to do anything else, as our system shall create an .htaccess file automatically within the desired location and will add the needed code within it. All websites with enabled hotlink protection will be listed inside exactly the same section, so you can easily disable this service for any of them with a mouse click.

Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Servers

We offer an effective solution to secure your whole content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you can take advantage of it with a few mouse clicks. The common technique to turn on server-side hotlink protection is to set up an .htaccess file and to include a few directives in it. With the tool that you'll discover in the Hepsia Control Panel, offered with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only have to select the Internet site that you want to protect and our system will set up the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the essential content in it. You could also use this option for only one folder instead of the whole site - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file has to be set up. If you no longer need the hotlink security to be switched on, you'll be able to disable it with one click through the same section of your CP.