Hotlinking is a widely accepted Internet phrase for linking to another website’s images. Basically, if you build a site, someone else may want to use the images that you have and rather than downloading them from your website and then uploading them to their own website, they may simply put links straight to your site. In this way, when a visitor opens their site, the images will be loaded from your account, consequently stealing from your own monthly traffic quota, along with the copyright problems that can develop or that somebody can be trying to trick people into thinking that they're in fact on your site. In rare occasions, documents and other sorts of files could also be linked in the exact same way. To prevent this from happening and to avoid this kind of situations, you can enable hotlink protection for your site.
Hotlinking Protection in Web Hosting
You can easily protect your content if you set up an .htaccess file inside the website’s root folder, but in case that you do not have previous experience, you could use our hotlink protection tool. The latter is provided with all web hosting packages we offer and could be accessed via the in-house built Hepsia Control Panel. The protection could be activated in two easy steps - pick the domain or subdomain for the site in question, then pick if our system should create the .htaccess file in the primary folder or within a subfolder and you shall be all set. You don't need any programming capabilities or any experience with this type of matters, since there shall be nothing else to do. If you'd like to remove the protection eventually, you can see all the Internet sites that are protected inside the same section of the Control Panel with a Delete button next to each of them.
Hotlinking Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our company offers a simple solution to secure your content and even if you are not very tech-savvy, you could benefit from it with several clicks. The conventional technique to activate server-side hotlink security is to generate an .htaccess file and to add a few directives within it. With the tool which you'll discover within the Hepsia CP, offered with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will only have to pick the Internet site that you want to secure and our system will create the .htaccess file for you, adding all of the required content inside it. You could also use this option for just one folder rather than the entire website - you just need to specify where the .htaccess file should be created. If you no longer require the hotlink security to be active, you could deactivate it with just one mouse click via the very same section of your Control Panel.